Name meaning & stats
Cheyenne
Cheyenne means “people of a different speech”. 73,428 US babies since 1940, peak 1996.
What it means
“people of a different speech”
Well documented
In US birth records
Peak year: 1996
73,428 US babies were named Cheyenne between 1940 and 2025.
Careers
Not enough notable people named Cheyenne (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.
Spelling family
Cheyenne is the main spelling
- Cheyenne 99%
- Cheyene 1%
Names that sound the same, grouped by Heyotag. Share of US babies since 1940.
Name twins (peaked around 1996)