Meaning and history
Cheyenne derives from Lakota šahiyena, meaning "red speakers," and names a Native American people of the Great Plains. The Lakota supposedly applied the term because the Cheyenne language was unrelated to theirs; it has been used as a given name since the 1950s.
20062006: 2,077 births, rank #170
2007: 2,366 births, rank #147
2008: 2,111 births, rank #160
2009: 1,771 births, rank #186
2010: 1,374 births, rank #229
20112011: 1,159 births, rank #274
2012: 1,019 births, rank #318
2013: 983 births, rank #330
2014: 911 births, rank #360
2015: 952 births, rank #346
20162016: 809 births, rank #411
2017: 741 births, rank #429
2018: 678 births, rank #465
2019: 632 births, rank #496
2020: 509 births, rank #579
20212021: 451 births, rank #660
2022: 427 births, rank #686
2023: 358 births, rank #787
2024: 311 births, rank #870
20252025: 285 births, rank #920
Cheyenne moved from #870 to #920 for girls between 2024 and 2025. Its highest annual birth count came in 1996, with 4,866 births.