girls:
720 births since 1976
#4996 (13th percentile)
boys:
22 births since 1987
#4564 (0th percentile)
overall:
742 births since 1976
#6997 (10th percentile)
The name Cheyene is the #6,997 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 742 recorded births since 1976. This represents the 9.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 9.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,996 (12.6% percentile) for all time with 720 births since 1976. For boys, it ranks #4,564 (0.4% percentile) for all time with 22 births since 1987.
Cheyene first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1976 (1976 for girls and 1987 for boys). Birth data for Cheyene is available in 26 out of the 35 years between 1976 and 2010 (26 years for girls and 4 years for boys). 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.
The name Cheyene has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 97.0% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Cheyene reached its peak popularity in 1997, achieving the 6.0% percentile (ranked #811) with 30 births per million. The name was most common in 1997, with 30 births per million (ranked 6.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2010.
For boys, Cheyene reached its peak popularity in 1991, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #759) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1994, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1999.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Cheyene".
These names exclude other spelling variations of Cheyenne. View all variations of Cheyenne.
These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Cheyene", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 39 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Cheyenne" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Cheyenne..
Our model has identified 10 different pronunciations for the name Cheyene. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 26.8% confident that Cheyene is pronounced as SHAI-ehn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is shai-EHN, at 19.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.
If none of the pronunciations above sound right to you, could you please check whether any of these related pronunciations should be applied to the name Cheyene? These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Cheyene. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Cheyene, please vote using the thumbs up button.
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 SH AY1 EH0 N) 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.
© 2025 NamePlay.org
Made with ❤️ by Aaron J Becker