How popular is “Cheyenne” in the USA?

Number of people named “Cheyenne” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Cheyenne” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Cheyenne” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Cheyenne” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Cheyenne” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Cheyenne” by birth year

This chart shows how “Cheyenne” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Males	Bias toward female
1946	5	0.000001565	5		100%
1947	15	0.000004164	15		100%
1948	7	0.000002028	7		100%
1949	20	0.000005739	15	5	50%
1950	11	0.00000314	11		100%
1951	19	0.000005158	13	6	37%
1952	16	0.000004213	16		100%
1953	22	0.000005709	16	6	45%
1954	19	0.000004773	19		100%
1955	20	0.000004981	15	5	50%
1956	60	0.000014552	21	39	-30%
1957	82	0.000019514	11	71	-73%
1958	47	0.000011369	5	42	-79%
1959	26	0.000006253	8	18	-38%
1960	35	0.000008426	7	28	-60%
1961	18	0.000004345		18	-100%
1962	20	0.000004956	7	13	-30%
1963	19	0.0000048	8	11	-16%
1964	20	0.000005145	6	14	-40%
1965	26	0.000007172	9	17	-31%
1966	25	0.000007193	7	18	-44%
1967	28	0.000008248	5	23	-64%
1968	25	0.0000074	13	12	4%
1969	37	0.000010646	21	16	14%
1970	54	0.000014973	29	25	7%
1971	74	0.00002156	38	36	3%
1972	95	0.000030226	52	43	9%
1973	113	0.000037456	53	60	-6%
1974	140	0.000046053	87	53	24%
1975	150	0.000049679	87	63	16%
1976	178	0.000058663	124	54	39%
1977	176	0.000055407	109	67	24%
1978	175	0.000055138	116	59	33%
1979	190	0.000057109	130	60	37%
1980	235	0.000068225	176	59	50%
1981	218	0.000063017	164	54	50%
1982	246	0.000070126	190	56	54%
1983	258	0.000074495	202	56	57%
1984	214	0.00006134	175	39	64%
1985	218	0.00006108	178	40	63%
1986	282	0.000079279	236	46	67%
1987	327	0.000090692	281	46	72%
1988	358	0.000096887	314	44	75%
1989	436	0.00011341	373	63	71%
1990	886	0.000224163	833	53	88%
1991	1838	0.000471855	1718	120	87%
1992	1876	0.00048838	1795	81	91%
1993	2483	0.000658572	2372	111	91%
1994	3421	0.000920204	3307	114	93%
1995	4211	0.001149869	4089	122	94%
1996	4975	0.001364062	4866	109	96%
1997	4846	0.001336551	4764	82	97%
1998	4391	0.001193788	4327	64	97%
1999	3828	0.001036312	3779	49	97%
2000	3415	0.000903462	3367	48	97%
2001	2921	0.000780309	2875	46	97%
2002	2752	0.000736165	2712	40	97%
2003	2507	0.000659334	2475	32	97%
2004	2230	0.000583629	2190	40	96%
2005	1983	0.000515755	1966	17	98%
2006	2097	0.000530056	2077	20	98%
2007	2383	0.000596095	2366	17	99%
2008	2128	0.000541384	2111	17	98%
2009	1784	0.000466994	1770	14	98%
2010	1390	0.000376109	1374	16	98%
2011	1169	0.000319592	1159	10	98%
2012	1028	0.000281077	1019	9	98%
2013	991	0.00027183	982	9	98%
2014	918	0.000247681	911	7	98%
2015	963	0.000260206	952	11	98%
2016	814	0.000221877	809	5	99%
2017	748	0.000209161	740	8	98%
2018	678	0.000192838	678		100%
2019	643	0.000185253	632	11	97%
2020	515	0.000154165	509	6	98%
2021	449	0.000132529	449		100%
2022	436	0.000128875	426	10	95%
2023	362	0.000109326	356	6	97%
2024	317	0.000095238	310	7	96%

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