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Chyann vs Chyenne

American parents have registered 1,377 Chyennes since 1880, against 944 Chyanns. But in 2025 it was Chyann that was commoner, 5 babies to fewer than five.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Chyann against Chyenne, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Chyann Chyenne

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

Of the 44 years in which either name was published, Chyenne for 29 years and Chyann for 15 years. The lead changed hands 13 times.

10 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.

Side by side

  Chyann Chyenne
Total US births 9441,377
Most in one year 58113
Babies in 2025 5under 5
Estimated living today 9301,400
Median age today 2326
Peak year 20001996
Best rank 2,569th girls1,446th girls
Rank in 2025 14,942ndunranked
First recorded 19801977
Girls / boys 944 / 01,372 / 5

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 Chyennes alive today are over 26; half the Chyanns are over 23. That is 3 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Chyann Chyenne
England and Wales 38

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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