How rare is the name Cherise?

3,960 people in the United States have the first name Cherise, about 1 in 76,271. It ranks #4,630 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census, tied with 1 other.

first name

CHERISE

#4,630

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
3,960
About
1 in 76,271
This common or more
84.3%
Who bears it

Of the 3,960 people named Cherise, 41.1% reported their origin as Black, 40.9% as White and 7.4% as Hispanic or Latino. Virtually all are female (99.9%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Cherise peaked in 1971, when 151 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19472024
Peak year
1971
Births that year
151
In 2024
5 ▼97%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 4,484 babies have been given the name since 1947. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero.

Cherise by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1970s, when it ranked #1,721. The largest share of babies named Cherise, 41.7%, were born between 1965 and 1980, Generation X's birth years.

1940s#9,67317
1950s#4,396165
1960s#2,062767
1970s#1,7211,261
1980s#1,8571,319
1990s#3,431690
2000s#10,280195
2010s#21,46565
2020s#39,3255
Baby boom 1946–6410.2%
Generation X 1965–8041.7%
Millennials 1981–9640.1%
Generation Z 1997–127%
2013 and later0.9%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Cherise is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Cherise has been most common in New York (3.2×), California (3.2×), and Illinois (2.7×), and least common in Florida (0.57×).

2,220 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Exactly as common as Cherise

1 other first name also has 3,960 people.

#4,630 Mirtha · 3,960

Either side of Cherise

#4,627 Danuta · 3,965#4,629 Sabastian · 3,964#4,630 Mirtha · 3,960#4,632 Lorinda · 3,957

Spelled almost the same

8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Cherise, most common first.

#134 Chris · 366,260#2,788 Cherish · 8,334#4,026 Charisse · 4,823#4,653 Charis · 3,934#7,934 Charise · 1,860#12,557 Cherisse · 988#12,652 Cherice · 978#14,066 Chriss · 844

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