Entry № 1961 · Native American origin

Cheyenne Cheyenne — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ shy-AN /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Native American
Meaning
"The Cheyenne people (Cheyenne Jackson, Broadway star)"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Medieval (Sioux)

A name that means "the cheyenne people (cheyenne jackson, broadway star)".

Cheyenne is from the Sioux Šahíyena ("red speakers") — the name the Sioux used for the neighboring Cheyenne nation, one of the most-prominent Native American peoples of the Great Plains. Cheyenne is the most-commonly-used Native American given name in modern US naming statistics.

The Cheyenne people.

The name in its native script.

Cheyenne
Transliteration
Cheyenne
Pronunciation
/ ʃaɪˈæn /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Cheyenne stands.

Cheyenne does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Cheyennes before her.

Real people
Cheyenne Jackson
American Broadway actor.
born 1975
Cheyenne Brando
Tahitian-American.
1970 – 1995
Cheyenne Kimball
American singer.
born 1990
In fiction
Cheyenne Bodie
ABC's Cheyenne.
1955

Names connected to Cheyenne.

The number behind Cheyenne.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Cheyenne reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.