How rare is the name Cherish?

8,334 people in the United States have the first name Cherish, about 1 in 36,241. It ranks #2,788 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

CHERISH

#2,788

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
8,334
About
1 in 36,241
This common or more
80.8%
Who bears it

Of the 8,334 people named Cherish, 41.6% reported their origin as Black, 37.7% as White and 7.5% as Hispanic or Latino. 99.4% are female. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Cherish peaked in 2007, when 461 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19662025
Peak year
2007
Births that year
461
In 2025*
160 ▼65%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 11,352 babies have been given the name since 1966. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Cherish by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1980s, when it ranked #1,579. The largest share of babies named Cherish, 39.4%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.

1960s#6,234107
1970s#2,123866
1980s#1,5791,722
1990s#1,9261,664
2000s#1,5812,865
2010s#1,6223,130
2020s#2,526998
Generation X 1965–809.1%
Millennials 1981–9624.9%
Generation Z 1997–1239.4%
2013 and later26.5%

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 Cherish is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Cherish has been most common in Hawaii (3.2×), Florida (2.2×), and Georgia (1.9×), and least common in New Jersey (0.29×).

8,276 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.

Either side of Cherish

#2,786 Keila · 8,338#2,786 Valery · 8,338#2,789 Layton · 8,328#2,790 Chaim · 8,326

Spelled almost the same

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

#134 Chris · 366,260#4,630 Cherise · 3,960#4,653 Charis · 3,934#7,934 Charise · 1,860#12,557 Cherisse · 988#12,652 Cherice · 978#14,066 Chriss · 844#16,800 Cherese · 666

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