Chaya — #599 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Chaya

The Social Security Administration has registered 15,170 babies named Chaya between 1947 and 2024, spanning 78 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Chaya currently holds the #599 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2022, when 503 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Chaya performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 4,122 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Chaya shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 9,683 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New Jersey and California. In total, SSA state-level files list Chaya in 16 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Chaya 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 15,170 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.