Cheryle
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Cheryle has been given to 5,476 babies in the U.S. since 1925. 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 1947, with 278 recorded.
Babies named Cheryle, 1997
1 in 725,000
Cheryle 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Cheryle?
Cheryle had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1997, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1997
- 1 in 725,000
- 5 of 3,624,676 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 348,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1997
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 502,488 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Cheryle sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1997 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 502,488 children born in 1997 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Cheryle. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Cheryles were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Cheryle was born before 1955 — so the typical Cheryle is around 70 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1950s
- 40.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 5.1%
- Mostly a past generation
- Recorded since 1950
- 3,918
- People you could plausibly meet
1950s — 40.1% of all recorded uses (2,194).
Is Cheryle 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1947 (278)
- Years since peak
- 78
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 27.1% average annual change
Spellings of Cheryle
Cheryle is not the most common spelling — Cheryl is, with 75.8% against Cheryle's 0.94%.
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 Cheryle is used
Across 1910–2025, Cheryle was most concentrated in Massachusetts — about 1 in 16,667 girls, against 1 in 42,967 across all states with data. It was least common in Utah (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Massachusetts1 in 16,667
- 2Washington1 in 20,000
- 3California1 in 25,000
- 4Michigan1 in 25,000
- 5Ohio1 in 25,000
- 6Illinois1 in 33,333
- 7Indiana1 in 33,333
- 8New York1 in 33,333
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. Cheryle has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Cheryle around the world
Where Cheryle 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 Australia1945–1983#686in 1983
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Cheryle by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Cheryle
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Cheryle
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Cheryle, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Cheryle
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.