Cheney

girls:

209 births since 1976

#5507 (4th percentile)

boys:

124 births since 1970

#4462 (3rd percentile)

overall:

333 births since 1970

#7406 (4th percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Cheney".

1970 2019 19702019

Key Statistics

Total Births
209
Peak Births
22
Peak Year
2001
First Recorded
1976
Peak Percentile
1.9%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#758
Current Rank
Female statistics
Total Births
124
Peak Births
12
Peak Year
1991
First Recorded
1970
Peak Percentile
0.9%
Current Percentile
0.0%
Peak Rank
#653
Current Rank
#917
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Cheney

Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Cheney. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 53.7% confident that Cheney is pronounced as CHAY-nee. The next most likely pronunciation is CHEE-nee, at 12.2% confidence.

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CHAY-nee (2 syllables)
Verified
53.7% confidence
CH EY1 N IY0
CHEE-nee (2 syllables)
12.2% confidence
CH IY1 N IY0
SHEE-nee (2 syllables)
12.2% confidence
SH IY1 N IY0
CHEH-nee (2 syllables)
12.2% confidence
CH EH1 N IY0

Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Cheney. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Cheney, please vote using the thumbs up button.

CHA-nee (2 syllables)
7 names 5.3k births
CH AE1 N IY0

About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like CH EY1 N IY0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.