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Cheyna

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Cheyna has been given to 124 babies in the U.S. since 1986. 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 1988, with 15 recorded.

Babies named Cheyna, 2003

1 in 760,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Cheyna: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Cheyna means

Cheyna is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Cheyna is used in English.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Cheyna is pronounced /ˈt͡ʃeɪnə/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 124 girls were recorded with the name Cheyna between 1986 and 2003. Its highest annual count was 15 in 1988; its best national rank was #5,368 in 1988.

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 Cheyna?

Cheyna had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2003, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2003
1 in 760,000
5 of 3,801,425 births
Among girls only
1 in 365,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2003
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
526,991 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Cheyna 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 2003 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 526,991 children born in 2003 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Cheyna. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Cheynas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Cheyna was born before 1993 — so the typical Cheyna is around 32 today.

Median birth year
1993
About 32 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
67.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
124
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 67.7% of all recorded uses (84).

Is Cheyna 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 1988 (15)
Years since peak
37
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,368
1988

Spellings of Cheyna

Cheyna is not the most common spelling — Sheena is, with 17.3% against Cheyna's 0.10%.

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.

Cheyna around the world

Where Cheyna 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.

  • France
    2012–2012
    #6,585
    in 2012
  • South Australia
    2002–2002
    #730
    in 2002

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Cheyna 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
#5,368
1988
Peak year
1988
15 that year
First recorded
1986
Last recorded
2003
All-time count
124
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Cheyna

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

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Sibling names for Cheyna

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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