Chaka — unisex name

What the Data Says About Chaka

The Social Security Administration has registered 841 babies named Chaka between 1974 and 1991, spanning 18 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Chaka currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1991. The name reached its historical peak in 1976, when 147 babies received it in a single year. Chaka is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 262 additional births since 1968.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Chaka performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 519 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Chaka shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Georgia, which accounts for 85 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and California. In total, SSA state-level files list Chaka in 15 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Chaka 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 841 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.