Cherokee
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — three syllables, given to 35 babies a year in the US.
Cherokee by the numbers
Cherokee was given to 35 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 143 babies in 1998, so it is a 1990s name that has since fallen a long way.
What we can tell you about Cherokee
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Cherokee. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
Names about as common as Cherokee
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