Kherington
Kherington Taylor Payne is an American dancer, actress, choreographer, television personality and singer who camas a contestant in Season 4 of the hit reality-dance show So You Think You Can Dance as the sixth female contestant and in gender the sixth overall contestant to be eliminated and in a role in the 2009 reinvention of the movie Fame.
Meaning & Origin of Kherington
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Kherington Taylor Payne is an American dancer, actress, choreographer, television personality and singer who camas a contestant in Season 4 of the hit reality-dance show So You Think You Can Dance as the sixth female contestant and in gender the sixth overall contestant to be eliminated and in a role in the 2009 reinvention of the movie Fame.
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The Story of Kherington
American parents first put Kherington on the record books as a baby girl name in 2008, with 66 registered babies. Its peak popularity came in 2009, when 80 Kheringtons were born — ranking #2,396 that year. About 63% of every Kherington on record arrived during the 2010s, its defining decade. Kherington last appeared in the published SSA data in 2021, with 6 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 441 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 2000s to the 2020s.
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About the name Kherington
Kherington is a girl baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 2008 and has accumulated 441 births in the dataset. Kherington's peak popularity came in 2009 when it ranked #2,396. Use the chart and map above to compare Kherington's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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