Cheyan
Girl · shy-AN · Native American
Cheyan is a girls' name of Native American origin, meaning “people of alien speech”. Too few babies were given it in the latest year to rank.
What does Cheyan mean?
Native American: spelling of Cheyann; respelling of Cheyenne, a Plains people named from a Dakota Sioux word
“people of alien speech”
Respelling of Cheyenne, the name of a Plains Indian people, from a Dakota Sioux word for speakers of a foreign language.
- Say it
- shy-AN
Meaning borrowed from Cheyann.
Is Cheyan a girl's or a boy's name?
Cheyan is a girls' name.
How popular is Cheyan in the US?
No girls in the US were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2001, with 13 girls. It first appears in the records in 1994.
Half of all the girls named Cheyan in the US since 1880 were born between 1998 and 2005, the years shaded on the chart below.
Cheyan in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 5 | #17,288 |
| 2008 | 7 | #13,827 |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,125 |
| 2006 | 7 | #13,601 |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,003 |
| 2004 | 7 | #12,754 |
| 2003 | 12 | #8,500 |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 13 | #7,717 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,156 |
| 1999 | 12 | #7,710 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,254 |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,012 |
| 1996 | 11 | #7,569 |
| 1995 | 6 | #11,778 |
| 1994 | 6 | #11,771 |
Names like Cheyan
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
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