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Cheryll

Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Cheryll has been given to 2,628 babies in the U.S. since 1934. 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 1955, with 162 recorded.

Babies named Cheryll, 1989

1 in 480,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Cheryll: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Cheryll means

Cheryll is a given name.

The naming story behind Cheryll

Wikidata records Cheryll as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q96243971, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,628 girls were recorded with the name Cheryll between 1934 and 1989. Its highest annual count was 162 in 1955; its best national rank was #743 in 1946.

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.

How common is Cheryll?

Cheryll had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1989, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1989
1 in 480,000
8 of 3,842,268 births
Among girls only
1 in 230,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1989
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
332,908 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Cheryll 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 1989 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 332,908 children born in 1989 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Cheryll. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Cherylls were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Cheryll was born before 1955 — so the typical Cheryll is around 70 today.

Median birth year
1955
About 70 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
43.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
18.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,944
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1950s — 43.3% of all recorded uses (1,138).

Is Cheryll 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 1955 (162)
Years since peak
70
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#743
1946

Spellings of Cheryll

Cheryll is not the most common spelling — Cheryl is, with 81.8% against Cheryll's 0.49%.

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 Cheryll is used

Across 1910–2025, Cheryll was most concentrated in Indiana — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 115,794 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Indiana1 in 50,000
  2. 2Ohio1 in 50,000
  3. 3California1 in 100,000
  4. 4Illinois1 in 100,000
  5. 5Massachusetts1 in 100,000
  6. 6Michigan1 in 100,000
  7. 7Minnesota1 in 100,000
  8. 8Missouri1 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. Cheryll has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Cheryll around the world

Where Cheryll 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.

  • Scotland
    1983–1991
    #634
    in 1991
  • South Australia
    1947–1973
    #695
    in 1973

Popularity data from National Records of Scotland and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Cheryll in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Cheryll. Linked forms have their own page here.

CherylSheryll

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Cheryll 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
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Best rank ever
#743
1946
Peak year
1955
162 that year
First recorded
1934
Last recorded
1989
All-time count
2,628
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Cheryll

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

ChesneyCheyannCherokeeCherilynChelsyChevelleChenoaChelsiCherishCherlynCherrylChelseeChelsieCherrieKendyllCheriseCheryleChericeCheritaCherryChereeChesterChesneeCherelle

Names with a curve like Cheryll

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

GlindaPamellaDremaCorlissKaranGwendaMerrieSheilahPameliaSherrylCatheyCinda

Sibling names for Cheryll

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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