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
- 13,203rd among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 6 about 1 in 270,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too 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.
Cheyann in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #13,203 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 5 | #15,300 |
| 2021 | 5 | #15,246 |
| 2020 | 6 | #13,448 |
| 2019 | 8 | #11,350 |
| 2018 | 19 | #6,244 |
| 2017 | 19 | #6,283 |
| 2016 | 16 | #7,227 |
| 2015 | 25 | #5,286 |
| 2014 | 23 | #5,623 |
| 2013 | 27 | #5,011 |
| 2012 | 36 | #4,119 |
| 2011 | 41 | #3,722 |
| 2010 | 40 | #3,815 |
| 2009 | 58 | #2,965 |
| 2008 | 53 | #3,157 |
| 2007 | 83 | #2,311 |
| 2006 | 74 | #2,485 |
| 2005 | 63 | #2,666 |
| 2004 | 66 | #2,523 |
| 2003 | 86 | #2,060 |
| 2002 | 82 | #2,078 |
| 2001 | 90 | #1,918 |
| 2000 | 75 | #2,137 |
| 1999 | 114 | #1,500 |
| 1998 | 100 | #1,618 |
| 1997 | 97 | #1,622 |
| 1996 | 79 | #1,838 |
| 1995 | 58 | #2,277 |
| 1994 | 65 | #2,097 |
| 1993 | 55 | #2,317 |
| 1992 | 22 | #4,521 |
| 1991 | 24 | #4,202 |
| 1990 | 14 | #6,125 |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,031 |
| 1988 | 6 | #10,381 |
| 1987 | 6 | #9,820 |
| 1986 | 8 | #7,745 |
| 1985 | 0 | – |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,139 |
| 1983 | 9 | #6,703 |
| 1982 | 0 | – |
| 1981 | 0 | – |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,177 |
Names like Cheyann
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Teagan, Cassidy, Brooklyn, Kaitlyn, Reagan, Brynn, Camryn, Logan, Devyn, Heaven, Eden, Ashlyn
Other spellings of Cheyann
Names related to Cheyann
More Native American names
Dakota, Tallulah, Nayeli, Winona, Kenai, Cree, Xochitl, Xitlali, Citlali, Alaska, Talulah, Sequoia, Denali, Tennessee, Dakoda, Lakota
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.