Cheryl
Cheryl is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 37 births. Its best rank was 13th, in 1958.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 370.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 195824,118 births
- Best rank
- #13in 1958
- Since 1909
- 439,502people given the name
The story in the numbers
439,502 girls have been named Cheryl in the United States since 1909, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1958, with 24,118 births — 1.2% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 37 births in 2024, against 24,118 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1958, and the 1950s alone account for 39%. It has spent 66 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 34 of them in the top 100.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Cheryl | |
|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 5 | |
| 1910s | 70 | |
| 1920s | 268 | |
| 1930s | 1,300 | |
| 1940s | 70,959 | |
| 1950s | 171,390 | |
| 1960s | 135,646 | |
| 1970s | 40,393 | |
| 1980s | 14,319 | |
| 1990s | 3,317 | |
| 2000s | 1,035 | |
| 2010s | 611 | |
| 2020s | 189 |
In 1958, its biggest year
Cheryl was the 13th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1958 were Mary, Susan, Linda, Karen and Patricia. See all of 1958.
Names that rose and fell with Cheryl
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Sherylpeak 1957
- Lynnpeak 1956
- Teresiapeak 1956
- Pamelapeak 1954
- Pamalapeak 1958
- Terylpeak 1956
- Vickeypeak 1957
- Vickypeak 1957
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.