Chia
Chia was last recorded in 2000, when 5 babies were given it; 283 Americans have been recorded with it between 1975 and 2000 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Chia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Chia?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,519, in 2000; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
25 babies in 1985, the peak
Chia peaked in 1985, when 25 babies were given it (14 girls, #5,116 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 5 | #15,519 | under 5 | |
| 1997 | 6 | #12,386 | under 5 | |
| 1996 | 7 | #10,801 | under 5 | |
| 1995 | 7 | #10,733 | under 5 | |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,246 | under 5 | |
| 1992 | 16 | #5,769 | under 5 | |
| 1991 | 17 | #5,442 | 8 | #6,033 |
| 1990 | 10 | #7,992 | 5 | #8,316 |
| 1989 | 12 | #6,614 | 12 | #4,306 |
| 1988 | 9 | #7,812 | under 5 |
Every recorded year (23)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | 6 | #10,065 | under 5 | |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,227 | 9 | #4,522 |
| 1985 | 14 | #5,116 | 11 | #3,835 |
| 1984 | 9 | #6,909 | 8 | #4,624 |
| 1983 | 13 | #5,199 | 5 | #6,393 |
| 1982 | 11 | #5,995 | under 5 | |
| 1981 | 12 | #5,623 | 5 | #6,440 |
| 1980 | 10 | #6,380 | 6 | #5,631 |
| 1979 | 5 | #10,473 | under 5 | |
| 1978 | 7 | #7,756 | under 5 | |
| 1977 | 5 | #9,884 | under 5 | |
| 1976 | 8 | #6,718 | under 5 | |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,164 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Chia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 283 Americans recorded as Chia, 76% are girls and 24% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Chia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Chia, and how old are they?
An estimated 272 Americans named Chia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 40 years old and half are between 35 and 44. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 2,190 people named Chia (1,358 women and girls, 832 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 275 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8.0 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Chia rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 1,744 babies since 1880, Chia is the second most given (16% of them). In 2025 none of their 26 babies recorded by SSA was a Chia (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 Chia
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 Chia and names like it
- Compare Chia and ChiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sChia peaked in 1985.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Chia since 1910.
- The top names of 1985The year the most babies were named Chia.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Chia alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with CMost given first.