Chenoa
Chenoa was given to 8 girls in 2025, #11,143 among girls’ names; 1,736 Americans have been recorded with it since 1967 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,690 Americans named Chenoa and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 32 years old and half are between 23 and 45.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Chenoa by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Chenoa?
#11,143 among girls’ names, 2025
Chenoa fell from #8,093 in 2015 to #11,143 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 7.8 to 5.0 per million.
59 babies in 1976, the peak
Chenoa peaked in 1976, when 59 girls were given it, #1,663 among girls’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are 14% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,143 | 5.0 |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,316 | 9.3 |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,410 | 4.4 |
| 2022 | 6 | #13,963 | 3.7 |
| 2021 | 7 | #12,476 | 4.3 |
| 2020 | 11 | #9,065 | 6.8 |
| 2019 | 16 | #7,092 | 9.5 |
| 2018 | 18 | #6,577 | 10.6 |
| 2017 | 14 | #7,933 | 8.1 |
| 2016 | 18 | #6,713 | 10.2 |
Every recorded year (58)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 14 | #8,093 | 7.8 |
| 2014 | 17 | #7,060 | 9.5 |
| 2013 | 20 | #6,294 | 11.4 |
| 2012 | 20 | #6,392 | 11.4 |
| 2011 | 23 | #5,773 | 13.1 |
| 2010 | 20 | #6,432 | 11.3 |
| 2009 | 21 | #6,358 | 11.4 |
| 2008 | 19 | #6,856 | 10.0 |
| 2007 | 39 | #3,996 | 20.3 |
| 2006 | 37 | #4,014 | 19.5 |
| 2005 | 33 | #4,204 | 17.9 |
| 2004 | 36 | #3,913 | 19.6 |
| 2003 | 45 | #3,235 | 24.6 |
| 2002 | 46 | #3,102 | 25.6 |
| 2001 | 53 | #2,770 | 29.4 |
| 2000 | 52 | #2,781 | 28.6 |
| 1999 | 44 | #2,998 | 24.8 |
| 1998 | 49 | #2,735 | 27.7 |
| 1997 | 45 | #2,736 | 25.9 |
| 1996 | 41 | #2,904 | 23.4 |
| 1995 | 46 | #2,653 | 26.2 |
| 1994 | 35 | #3,239 | 19.6 |
| 1993 | 29 | #3,691 | 16.0 |
| 1992 | 49 | #2,551 | 26.6 |
| 1991 | 34 | #3,218 | 18.1 |
| 1990 | 36 | #3,082 | 19.0 |
| 1989 | 37 | #2,934 | 20.1 |
| 1988 | 27 | #3,494 | 15.2 |
| 1987 | 27 | #3,349 | 15.5 |
| 1986 | 25 | #3,469 | 14.6 |
| 1985 | 32 | #2,870 | 18.6 |
| 1984 | 30 | #2,931 | 17.8 |
| 1983 | 26 | #3,163 | 15.6 |
| 1982 | 42 | #2,331 | 24.8 |
| 1981 | 46 | #2,201 | 27.6 |
| 1980 | 41 | #2,351 | 24.7 |
| 1979 | 50 | #2,026 | 31.1 |
| 1978 | 50 | #1,940 | 32.6 |
| 1977 | 46 | #2,067 | 30.0 |
| 1976 | 59 | #1,663 | 40.3 |
| 1975 | 43 | #2,027 | 29.5 |
| 1974 | 34 | #2,304 | 23.2 |
| 1973 | 25 | #2,766 | 17.1 |
| 1972 | 20 | #3,193 | 13.1 |
| 1971 | 23 | #2,972 | 13.8 |
| 1970 | 17 | #3,608 | 9.7 |
| 1969 | 6 | #6,751 | 3.6 |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,538 | 4.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Chenoa a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Chenoa has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 58 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Chenoa: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Chenoa, and how old are they?
1,690 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 1,736 Americans ever recorded as Chenoa. The median Chenoa alive today is 32 years old; half are between 23 and 45.
The 2020 Census counted 1,442 people named Chenoa (1,424 women and girls, 18 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,650 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 397 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 547 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 575 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 170 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Chenoa born?
The states with the most babies named Chenoa are California, New York and Texas, with 86% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 140 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| New York | 15 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Texas | 11 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Ohio | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Washington | 6 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Arizona | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Georgia | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| New Jersey | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Chenoa with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 2,658 babies since 1880, Chenoa is the most given (65% of them).
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 Chenoa
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 Chenoa and names like it
- Compare Chenoa and CheneyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sChenoa peaked in 1976.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Chenoa since 1910.
- The top names of 1976The year the most babies were named Chenoa.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Chenoa alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with CMost given first.