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Cheyenne

Pronounced /ʃaɪˈæn/

Rank in 2024
#871
Born in 2024
310
Peak year
1996 · #68
Origin
Not recorded
Also recorded for boys:7 in 2024 (#10,699)

1880 to 2024

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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 310 girls were named Cheyenne, about 1 in every 5,204.
  • It peaked in 1996 with 4,866 babies, ranked #68.
  • It first shows up in the records in 1946.
  • 70,439 girls have been named Cheyenne since 1880.

Who else has this name

Babies named Cheyenne per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.

  1. 0
    Greatest
  2. 0
    Silent
  3. <0.1
    Boomers
  4. <0.1
    Gen X
  5. 0.7
    Millennials
  6. 1.4
    Gen Z
  7. 0.4
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 0 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Silent: 0 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Boomers: 205 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Gen X: 1,056 babies, 0.04 per 1,000. Millennials: 21,093 babies, 0.75 per 1,000. Gen Z: 40,331 babies, 1.39 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 7,754 babies, 0.38 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

Borrowed from French Cheyenne, from Dakota šahíyena, from Dakota šaia (“to speak incoherently”), from Dakota ša (“red”) and Dakota ya (“to speak”).

  • A female or male given name of modern American usage.
Origin
Not recorded
Say it
/ʃaɪˈæn/

From Wiktionary’s entry for Cheyenne, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Other spellings

  • GirlBoyUncommon

    Cheyanne

    Rank
    #2,999
    Born '24
    55
    Origin
    —
    1880peak 19992024
  • GirlBoyUncommon

    Chyanne

    Rank
    #9,409
    Born '24
    11
    Origin
    —
    1880peak 19992024