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Cherise

Girls' name

Variant of Charisse

Cherise has been given to 4,484 babies in the U.S. since 1947. 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 1971, with 151 recorded.

Babies named Cherise, 2024

1 in 669,000

Cherise over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Cherise: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Charisse

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Cherise means

Cherise is a variant of Charisse.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Cherise is used in English.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ʃə.ˈɹis/ for Cherise.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Charisse.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,484 girls were recorded with the name Cherise between 1947 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 151 in 1971; its best national rank was #882 in 1971.

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 Cherise?

Cherise had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 669,000
5 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 324,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
463,412 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Cherise 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 2024 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 463,412 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Cherise. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Cherises were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Cherise was born before 1980 — so the typical Cherise is around 45 today.

Median birth year
1980
About 45 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
29.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
5.9%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
4,467
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1980s — 29.4% of all recorded uses (1,319).

Is Cherise 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1971 (151)
Years since peak
54
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#882
1971

Spellings of Cherise

Cherise is not the most common spelling — Cheri is, with 19.6% against Cherise's 2.4%.

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.

Where Cherise is used

Across 1910–2025, Cherise was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 25,000 girls, against 1 in 55,186 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

04 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 25,000
  2. 2Hawaii1 in 25,000
  3. 3Illinois1 in 25,000
  4. 4New York1 in 25,000
  5. 5Utah1 in 50,000
  6. 6Arizona1 in 100,000
  7. 7Colorado1 in 100,000
  8. 8District of Columbia1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Cherise has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Cherise around the world

Where Cherise 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.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2014
    #5,691
    in 2014
  • Scotland
    1979–2005
    #577
    in 2005
  • Ireland
    1994–1994
    #502
    in 1994
  • Canada
    1991–2012
    #3,249
    in 2012
  • South Australia
    1956–2010
    #801
    in 2010

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Cherise 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
#882
1971
Peak year
1971
151 that year
First recorded
1947
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
4,484
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Cherise

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

CheniseChesneyCheliseChelsiChevelleCherishCheyannChelsyChelsieAnaliseCherrieCherokeeCherilynCheryleDennisePromiseCherryChenoaCheryllChelseyCheyanneCherriseCherriCherlyn

Names with a curve like Cherise

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Cherise, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

KeliStephaineEricMellisaBrianStephenieMellissaRacheleSharaCristaAdrianeDanelle

Sibling names for Cherise

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

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