Cheyenna
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- shy-AN-a
- Origin
- Native American
Cheyenna 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 Cheyenna 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 Cheyenna a girl's or a boy's name?
Cheyenna is a girls' name.
How popular is Cheyenna in the US?
No girls in the US were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 1996, with 62 girls. It first appears in the records in 1978.
Half of all the girls named Cheyenna in the US since 1880 were born between 1993 and 2001, the years shaded on the chart below.
Cheyenna in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 6 | #14,552 |
| 2013 | 7 | #13,145 |
| 2012 | 5 | #16,863 |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 9 | #11,240 |
| 2009 | 14 | #8,450 |
| 2008 | 13 | #8,961 |
| 2007 | 15 | #8,094 |
| 2006 | 20 | #6,354 |
| 2005 | 11 | #9,447 |
| 2004 | 16 | #7,072 |
| 2003 | 26 | #4,799 |
| 2002 | 32 | #3,974 |
| 2001 | 23 | #5,004 |
| 2000 | 45 | #3,066 |
| 1999 | 33 | #3,635 |
| 1998 | 33 | #3,570 |
| 1997 | 62 | #2,197 |
| 1996 | 62 | #2,174 |
| 1995 | 46 | #2,645 |
| 1994 | 38 | #3,033 |
| 1993 | 31 | #3,501 |
| 1992 | 24 | #4,229 |
| 1991 | 26 | #3,930 |
| 1990 | 22 | #4,375 |
| 1989 | 13 | #6,154 |
| 1988 | 11 | #6,661 |
| 1987 | 15 | #5,069 |
| 1986 | 10 | #6,609 |
| 1985 | 6 | #9,304 |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,290 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,013 |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,222 |
| 1981 | 0 | – |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,177 |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,008 |
| 1978 | 5 | #9,748 |
Names like Cheyenna
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Kiara Brianna Cassidy Mckenna Briana Chiara Kiana Kianna Dakota Sierra Sienna Fiona
Names related to Cheyenna
Cheyenne Cheyanne Chenoa Cheyann Chynna Cheyanna Chyenne Cheyene
More Native American names
Tallulah Nayeli Winona Kenai Cree Xochitl Xitlali Citlali Alaska Talulah Sequoia Denali Tennessee Dakoda Lakota Wynonna
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, “Cheyenna: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/cheyenna, updated 20 October 2026.