Cherokee is a first name for girls, occasionally also given to boys.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Cherokee is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 2 out of 100,000 girls have been named Cherokee. In the SmartGenius ranking, Cherokee is #4,365 on the list of most common girls names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Cherokee.
Cherokee is a phenomenon of Generation X and Y. Previously, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Schoolkids of the early 20th century probably didn't have classmates named Cherokee - until this very name unexpectedly cried out for attention and peaked in popularity at rank number 975 in 1995. Although it has never reached the top 100 list, this girls' name seems to have been in vogue for a while, which makes Cherokee really in tune with her generation.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Cherokee was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
13 babies were named Cherokee in 2022 - that's 1 in 11,402,454 newborn girls. With this number, the girls' name Cherokee ranked 6,991 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which records are available.
The odds of living in the same statae as someone named Cherokee are about the same as meeting someone with blue eyes in the entire country – both odds are about 25 to 30 %. More precisely, the first name Cherokee is registered in 19 states, among which are Alabama, Arkansas, California, Florida or Georgia. In proportion to the female population, most women and girls with the first name Cherokee live in Oklahoma, and even there the name is rather special – only one in 9,218 would turn around if you called the name Cherokee across Oklahoma.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter C is a frequent initial letter for girls' names. This is because 6.0% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of girls' names, by the way, are A, S and M.
With eight letters, the name Cherokee is long compared to other names. In fact, 14.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly eight letters. 78% of all first names are shorter, while only 8% of all boys’ and girls’ names use nine letters or even more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long with no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that with 6.0% of all girls' names that begin with a C, this first letter is much more common than the average of all letters. And which girls’ name beginning with C do you think is the most common in the US? The answer is... Carol.
If your name is Cherokee and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Cherokee, you can simply say:
Cat
Hat
Elephant
Rocket
Orange
Koala
Elephant
Elephant
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Cherokee
Cherokee
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
C
H
E
R
O
K
E
E
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
C
H
E
R
O
K
E
E
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Cherokee sounds like this:
