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Cherrish vs Chester

American parents have registered 122,302 Chesters since 1880, against 588 Cherrishes. Chester is still ahead, with 107 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Cherrish against Chester, 1880 to 2025 0 1k 2k 3k 4k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Cherrish Chester

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Chester has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2006, when Cherrish had 27 and Chester had 71.

Side by side

  Cherrish Chester
Total US births 588122,302
Most in one year 273,726
Babies in 2025 under 5107
Estimated living today 58033,000
Median age today 2067
Peak year 20061920
Best rank 5,086th girls55th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked1,585th
First recorded 19711880
Girls / boys 588 / 0828 / 121,474

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Chesters alive today are over 67; half the Cherrishes are over 20. That is 47 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Cherrish and Chester.