Chidera — #5875 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Chidera

The Social Security Administration has registered 527 babies named Chidera between 1993 and 2024, spanning 32 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Chidera currently holds the #5875 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2014, when 28 babies received it in a single year. Chidera is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 233 additional births since 1999.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Chidera performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 208 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Chidera shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 59 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Chidera in 4 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Chidera 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 527 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.