Cherokee

girls:

2.6k births since 1920

#3425 (40th percentile)

boys:

337 births since 1975

#4249 (7th percentile)

overall:

2.9k births since 1920

#5035 (35th percentile)

Popularity Trends

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

1920 2023 19202023

Key Statistics

Total Births
2,553
Peak Births
143
Peak Year
1998
First Recorded
1920
Peak Percentile
15.8%
Current Percentile
1.2%
Peak Rank
#597
Current Rank
#936
Female statistics
Total Births
337
Peak Births
40
Peak Year
1995
First Recorded
1975
Peak Percentile
4.4%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#655
Current Rank
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Cherokee

Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Cherokee. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 53.4% confident that Cherokee is pronounced as CHEH-ruh-kee. The next most likely pronunciation is CHEH-ruh-KEE, at 39.7% confidence.

CHEH-ruh-kee (3 syllables)
Verified
53.4% confidence
CH EH1 R AH0 K IY0
CHEH-ruh-KEE (3 syllables)
Verified
39.7% confidence
CH EH1 R AH0 K IY1
cher-uh-KEE (3 syllables)
6.9% confidence
CH ER0 AH0 K IY1

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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

CHEH-ree-kuh (3 syllables)
4 names 434 births
CH EH1 R IY0 K AH0
CHAH-ree-kuh (3 syllables)
1 name 69 births
CH AA1 R IY0 K AH0

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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 EH1 R AH0 K 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.