Cherine

Girls' name

Sweet

Cherine has been given to 127 babies in the U.S. since 1949. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1968, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Cherine, 1990

1 in 790,000

Cherine over time, 1880–2025

Girls

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Cherine: meaning, origin, and history

Sweet

Persian

What Cherine means

Cherine means “sweet”, associated with širin.

Origin, language, and formation

Cherine is used in English. Its origins include Persian.

Cherine comes through Persian شیرین.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Cherine is pronounced /ʃɪˈɹiːn/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 127 girls were recorded with the name Cherine between 1949 and 1990. Its highest annual count was 8 in 1968; its best national rank was #5,132 in 1953.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Cherine?

Cherine had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1990, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1990: 1 in 790,000; 5 of 3,949,959 births
Among girls only: 1 in 379,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1990: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 547,582 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Cherine sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1990 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 547,582 children born in 1990 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Cherine. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Cherines were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Cherine was born before 1975 — so the typical Cherine is around 50 today.

Median birth year: 1975; About 50 years old
Biggest decade: 1970s; 33.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 78.7%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 122; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1970s — 33.9% of all recorded uses (43).

Is Cherine rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1968 (8)
Years since peak: 57; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 15.1% average annual change
Best rank ever: #5,132; 1953

Spellings of Cherine

Cherine is not the most common spelling — Catherine is, with 78.9% against Cherine's 0.02%.

Catherine78.9%667,789
Cheri4.3%36,068
Cherie3.5%29,969
Corrine2.5%20,831
Celine2.2%18,522
Corine1.7%14,547
Cherish1.3%11,352
Charline0.74%6,241

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Cherine around the world

Where Cherine ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

France
1979–2025
#4,396
in 2025
Canada
1993–2007
#3,117
in 2007
South Australia
1965–1971
#724
in 1971

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Cherine by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #5,132; 1953
Peak year: 1968; 8 that year
First recorded: 1949
Last recorded: 1990
All-time count: 127
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Cherine

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Chestine Chermaine Chemaine Chesnee Cherline Cherica Chelsye Chelbie Cheresa Chelcey Cheryal Chelsei Chesterine Chezney Chesnie Chellie Cheryel Sistine Cheyane Chelisa Cherisa Chelesa Cherene Adyline

Sibling names for Cherine

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Nichelle Aretha Brigette Josette Shelli Shannan Missy Marnie

For a brother

Kraig Kelley Stacey Thad Tracey Jacques Deron Judd

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