Cher
Cher is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 6 births. Its best rank was 651st, in 1972.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 60.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1972235 births
- Best rank
- #651in 1972
- Since 1948
- 1,831people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,721 girls have been named Cher in the United States since 1948, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1972, with 235 births.
The name has all but left use: 6 births in 2024, against 235 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1972, and the 1970s alone account for 56%. It has spent 3 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 110 boys have also been given it, 6.0% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 1972, its biggest year
Cher was the 651st most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1972 were Jennifer, Michelle, Lisa, Kimberly and Amy. See all of 1972.
Names that rose and fell with Cher
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Katinapeak 1972
- Triciapeak 1971
- Anjanettepeak 1971
- Lashunpeak 1970
- Buffypeak 1972
- Catinapeak 1972
- Tarshapeak 1974
- Lashonpeak 1970
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.