Sheyenne
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Sheyenne has been given to 1,431 babies in the U.S. since 1977. 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 1997, with 103 recorded.
Babies named Sheyenne, 2018
1 in 502,000
Sheyenne 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Sheyenne?
Sheyenne had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2018, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2018
- 1 in 502,000
- 7 of 3,516,853 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 243,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2018
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 348,244 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Sheyenne sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2018 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 348,244 children born in 2018 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sheyenne. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Sheyennes were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Sheyenne was born before 1999 — so the typical Sheyenne is around 26 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 49.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 85.9%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,431
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 49.5% of all recorded uses (709).
Is Sheyenne 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
- —
- 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 1997 (103)
- Years since peak
- 28
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 24.7% average annual change
Spellings of Sheyenne
Sheyenne is not the most common spelling — Cheyenne is, with 69.4% against Sheyenne's 1.4%.
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 Sheyenne is used
Across 1910–2025, Sheyenne was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 274,579 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Florida1 in 100,000
- 2North Dakota1 in 100,000
- 3New Mexico1 in 100,000
- 4Texas1 in 100,000
- 5California1 in —
- 6Indiana1 in —
- 7Michigan1 in —
- 8Minnesota1 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. Sheyenne has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Sheyenne around the world
Where Sheyenne 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.
- France1995–2023#5,229in 2023
- Canada1995–1997#1,823in 1997
- South Australia2000–2000#727in 2000
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Sheyenne by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Sheyenne
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Sheyenne
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.