Chianti — unisex name

What the Data Says About Chianti

The Social Security Administration has registered 388 babies named Chianti between 1971 and 2009, spanning 39 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Chianti currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2009. The name reached its historical peak in 1980, when 27 babies received it in a single year. Chianti is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 20 additional births since 1976.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Chianti performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 128 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Chianti shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 6 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Florida and Maryland. In total, SSA state-level files list Chianti in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Chianti 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 388 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.