Cheyenne
An English-language import rooted in the Lakota name for the Cheyenne people, read as "red speakers". In Poland it stays a rarity: about 35 women carry it, and most Poles have never met one.
Cheyenne Pronunciation
Cheyenne is pronounced khe-ih-EN-ne (/xɛɨˈɛnnɛ/).
What Cheyenne means
Where Cheyenne comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Cheyenne began as the name of a people. In the Dakota language, the word Šahíyena marked the Plains tribe whose speech sounded foreign, and it points toward the sense of "red speakers." French traders wrote it into their maps with the spelling we still use. The capital of Wyoming took the same name.
The name is young. In the United States it climbed the records through the 1990s and reached its highest rank around 1996. Westerns of that decade helped bring Plains names into wider use.
In Polish name books a different sense sometimes attaches to Cheyenne: "chwytanie za pięty," a grasping of the heel, and "zastępowanie," a supplanting. That reading came later, laid over a word that first named a whole people. On a Polish class register the name still reads as an import. Its oldest layer stays the Dakota Šahíyena, the red speakers of the Plains.
How many people are named Cheyenne
1 in 644110 women in Poland is named Cheyenne. 35 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #6694 among female names.
Cheyenne's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Cheyenne as a middle name
Cheyenne is a first name for 35 women in Poland and a middle name for another 8, an 81/19 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 2724th, between Charlota (8) and Chimamanda (8).
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#2722 Chandrashekhar8
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#2723 Charlota8
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#2724 Cheyenne8
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#2725 Chimamanda8
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#2726 Chizaram8