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Cherish

#1,374 in 2025Girls' name

To treasure

Cherish has been given to 11,352 babies in the U.S. since 1966. In 2025 it ranked #1,374 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2007, with 461 recorded.

Babies named Cherish, 2025

1 in 20,700

Cherish over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Cherish: meaning, origin, and history

To treasure

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Cherish means

Cherish means “to treasure”.

Origin, language, and formation

Cherish is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 11,352 girls were recorded with the name Cherish between 1966 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 461 in 2007; its best national rank was #643 in 2007.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,107 in 2020 to #1,374 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #938 in 2015 to #1,374 in 2025.

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 Cherish?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 20,700
160 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 10,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,374
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
14,363 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Cherish 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 2025 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 5002%

Put another way: gather 14,363 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Cherish. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Cherishs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Cherish was born before 2006 — so the typical Cherish is around 19 today.

Median birth year
2006
About 19 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
27.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
60.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
11,352
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 27.6% of all recorded uses (3,130).

Is Cherish 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
+101
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−267
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−436
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.55×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
34.7%
Peak was 2007 (461)
Years since peak
18
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
13.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#643
2007

Spellings of Cherish

Cherish is not the most common spelling — Cheri is, with 30.5% against Cherish's 9.6%.

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 Cherish is used

Across 2016–2025, Cherish was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 2,273 girls, against 1 in 7,393 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in 100,000).

144 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Mississippi1 in 2,273
  2. 2Louisiana1 in 3,333
  3. 3Illinois1 in 3,448
  4. 4Georgia1 in 3,704
  5. 5Missouri1 in 4,000
  6. 6Florida1 in 4,167
  7. 7Maryland1 in 4,348
  8. 8Ohio1 in 5,263

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.

Cherish around the world

Where Cherish 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
    1996–2025
    #3,333
    in 2025
  • France
    2019–2022
    #6,591
    in 2022
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #3,457
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1985–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Cherish by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,374
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 267
Best rank ever
#643
2007
Peak year
2007
461 that year
First recorded
1966
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
11,352
Count in 2025
160

Names similar to Cherish

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

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Names with a curve like Cherish

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

JoslynRyannLeighaIlianaJanessaShylaBreeDalilaRainaPriyaMikaAnabel

Sibling names for Cherish

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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