Cheryal
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Cheryal has been given to 153 babies in the U.S. since 1945. 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 1957, with 16 recorded.
Babies named Cheryal, 1971
1 in 686,000
Cheryal over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Cheryal?
Cheryal had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1971, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1971
- 1 in 686,000
- 5 of 3,432,187 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 333,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1971
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 475,803 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Cheryal sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1971 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 475,803 children born in 1971 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Cheryal. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Cheryals were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Cheryal was born before 1956 — so the typical Cheryal is around 69 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1950s
- 58.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 92.8%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 126
- People you could plausibly meet
1950s — 58.8% of all recorded uses (90).
Is Cheryal 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 1957 (16)
- Years since peak
- 68
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 27.5% average annual change
Spellings of Cheryal
Cheryal is not the most common spelling — Cheryl is, with 82.7% against Cheryal's 0.03%.
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 Cheryal is used
Across 1910–2025, Cheryal was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 3,202,555 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
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. Cheryal has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Cheryal around the world
Where Cheryal 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.
- South Australia1945–1962#647in 1962
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Cheryal by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Cheryal
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Cheryal
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.