Chia — unisex name

What the Data Says About Chia

The Social Security Administration has registered 214 babies named Chia between 1975 and 2000, spanning 26 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Chia currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2000. The name reached its historical peak in 1991, when 17 babies received it in a single year. Chia is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 69 additional births since 1980.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Chia performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 105 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Chia shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 35 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Chia in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Chia 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 214 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.