girls:
2.4k births since 1941
#3564 (38th percentile)
overall:
2.4k births since 1941
#5458 (29th percentile)
The name Cherilyn is the #5,458 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,358 recorded births since 1941. This represents the 29.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 29.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,564 (37.6% percentile) for all time with 2,358 births since 1941.
Cherilyn first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1941 (first recorded for girls in 1941). Birth data for Cherilyn is available in 68 out of the 76 years between 1941 and 2016. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Cherilyn reached its peak popularity in 1972, achieving the 20.9% percentile (ranked #588) with 100 births per million. The name was most common in 1972, with 100 births per million (ranked 20.9% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2016.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Cherilyn".
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Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Cherilyn. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 34.1% confident that Cherilyn is pronounced as SHEH-rih-lihn, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is CHEH-rih-lihn, at 19.5% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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