girls:
11k births since 1966
#1495 (74th percentile)
overall:
11k births since 1966
#2506 (68th percentile)
The name Cherish is the #2,506 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 11,041 recorded births since 1966. This represents the 67.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 67.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,495 (73.8% percentile) for all time with 11,041 births since 1966.
Cherish first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1966 (first recorded for girls in 1966).
For girls, Cherish reached its peak popularity in 2007, achieving the 43.4% percentile (ranked #559) with 218 births per million. The name was most common in 2007, with 218 births per million (ranked 43.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2011, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Cherish ranks #822 for girls (13.2% percentile) with 74 births per million, which is 34.1% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Cherish".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Cherish. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 79.5% confident that Cherish is pronounced as CHEH-rihsh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is SHEH-rihsh, at 20.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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