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Baby name
Cheyenne
Girl
Origin of the name
Cheyenne comes from the name of a Native American people: the Dakota word Ĺ ahĂyena is usually explained as “little Cree,” after another people.
Short-lived name
70,732births since 1880
1990sgeneration
No. 68rank at its peak, in 1996
Where babies named Cheyenne are born
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The darker the blue, the more common Cheyenne is in the state, compared with its births. White: no births published that year.
Where it is most popular
Compared with the national average, Cheyenne is most common in Oklahoma (2 times), New Mexico (1.9) and West Virginia (1.9), taking into account all births in each state since 1910.
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