Chaia
Chaia was last recorded in 2011, when 5 babies were given it; 60 Americans have been recorded with it between 1982 and 2011 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Chaia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Chaia?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,308, in 2011; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
10 babies in 1997, the peak
Chaia peaked in 1997, when 10 girls were given it, #8,462 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 5 | #17,308 | 2.8 |
| 2007 | 5 | #18,166 | 2.6 |
| 2006 | 5 | #17,655 | 2.6 |
| 2004 | 6 | #14,518 | 3.3 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,328 | 4.5 |
| 1999 | 5 | #14,838 | 2.8 |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,462 | 5.7 |
| 1991 | 5 | #13,502 | 2.7 |
| 1985 | 6 | #9,471 | 3.5 |
| 1982 | 5 | #10,741 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Chaia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Chaia has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 10 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Chaia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Chaia, and how old are they?
An estimated 59 Americans named Chaia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 176 people named Chaia (165 women and girls, 11 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 59 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.0 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
How common is the spelling Chaia?
Chaia is a less common spelling of Chaya: SSA has recorded 60 Chaia and 15,684 Chaya since 1880.
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 16,725 babies since 1880, Chaia is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 499 babies recorded by SSA was a Chaia (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Chaia
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Chaia and names like it
- Compare Chaia and ChayaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sChaia peaked in 1997.
- The top names of 1997The year the most babies were named Chaia.
- Names starting with CMost given first.