About the name Cherish
Cherish belongs to the English & American tradition. Its roots are documented, even though its precise meaning is not recorded in the standard references — an honest gap we prefer to a confident guess.
In the United States, Cherish first appears in Social Security records in 1966. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #643 in 2007, and in 2024 147 babies received the name — 11,190 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.