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Cheyann

Gender
Girl
Say it
shy-AN
Origin
Native American
US rank, 2025
#13,203 for girls

Cheyann is a girls' name of Native American origin, meaning “people of alien speech”. In 2025 it ranked 13,203rd for girls in the US (6 babies).

What does Cheyann mean?

Native American: 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.

Is Cheyann a girl's or a boy's name?

Cheyann is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 6 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Cheyann in the US?

Rank in 2025
#13,203among girls
Babies in 2025
6about 1 in 270,000 girls
Five-year trend
Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 6 girls in the US were named Cheyann, making it the 13,203rd most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 13,448th. Its busiest year was 1999, with 114 girls. It first appears in the records in 1980.

2025 had more girls named Cheyann than any year since 2020.

Half of all the girls named Cheyann in the US since 1880 were born between 1997 and 2007, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 103 girls in the US were given Cheyann or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,660, up from #13,203 for this spelling alone.

1980Busiest: 114 in 19992025
Cheyann in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20256#13,203
20240–
20230–
20225#15,300
20215#15,246
20206#13,448
20198#11,350
201819#6,244
201719#6,283
201616#7,227
201525#5,286
201423#5,623
201327#5,011
201236#4,119
201141#3,722
201040#3,815
200958#2,965
200853#3,157
200783#2,311
200674#2,485
200563#2,666
200466#2,523
200386#2,060
200282#2,078
200190#1,918
200075#2,137
1999114#1,500
1998100#1,618
199797#1,622
199679#1,838
199558#2,277
199465#2,097
199355#2,317
199222#4,521
199124#4,202
199014#6,125
19899#8,031
19886#10,381
19876#9,820
19868#7,745
19850–
19846#9,139
19839#6,703
19820–
19810–
19807#8,177

Names like Cheyann

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Other spellings of Cheyann

Names related to Cheyann

More Native American names

Every Native American name

Sources

Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Cheyann: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/cheyann, updated 20 October 2026.