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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Cherokee

Recorded for both sexesGen Z

2025 rank

#13,556

down −5,500 places

2025 births

6

down −7 births

All-time births

2,572

0% of them in 2025

More common than

95%

of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1998
143 births
Best rank
#1,262
in 1995
First recorded
1920
#5,106 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1997
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
68 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 1998143#1,265Peak
  2. 1996135#1,279
  3. 1995134#1,262
  4. 1997126#1,363
  5. 1994124#1,348

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #1,262 in 1995 · peak births 143 in 1998

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 12% boys■ 88% girls

337 boys · 2,572 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Cherokee has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.