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Cheynne

Girl · shy-AN · Native American

Cheynne 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 Cheynne 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.

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

Cheynne is a girls' name.

How popular is Cheynne in the US?

No girls in the US were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 1998, with 29 girls. It first appears in the records in 1990.

Half of all the girls named Cheynne in the US since 1880 were born between 1995 and 2002, the years shaded on the chart below.

1990Busiest: 29 in 19982009
Cheynne in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20099#11,454
20087#13,827
20070–
20060–
20056#14,495
200413#8,254
200314#7,575
200214#7,438
200115#6,951
200015#6,802
199910#8,798
199829#3,911
199716#5,864
199620#4,878
199521#4,672
199415#5,978
199311#7,491
199211#7,504
199116#5,653
19907#10,187

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