Cha — boys' name

What the Data Says About Cha

The Social Security Administration has registered 253 babies named Cha between 1980 and 2006, spanning 27 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Cha currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2006. The name reached its historical peak in 1991, when 21 babies received it in a single year. Cha is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 37 additional births since 1975.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Cha performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 122 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Cha shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 83 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Minnesota and Wisconsin. In total, SSA state-level files list Cha in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Cha in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 253 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.