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Cheyenne

Pronounced /ʃaɪˈæn/

Rank in 2024
#10,699
Born in 2024
7
Peak year
1995 · #1007
Origin
Not recorded
Also recorded for girls:310 in 2024 (#871)

1880 to 2024

Uncommon
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 7 boys were named Cheyenne, about 1 in every 245,045.
  • It peaked in 1995 with 122 babies, ranked #1007.
  • It first shows up in the records in 1949.
  • 2,696 boys 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. <0.1
    Millennials
  6. <0.1
    Gen Z
  7. <0.1
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 0 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Silent: 0 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Boomers: 276 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Gen X: 665 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Millennials: 1,154 babies, 0.04 per 1,000. Gen Z: 521 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 80 babies, 0.00 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.