Chika
Chika was last recorded in 2022, when 7 babies were given it; 378 Americans have been recorded with it between 1976 and 2022 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Chika by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Chika mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Chika is “a female given name from Japanese.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Chika?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #12,516, in 2022; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
19 babies in 1997, the peak
Chika peaked in 1997, when 19 babies were given it (12 girls, #7,359 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 7 | #12,516 | 4.3 |
| 2019 | 5 | #16,044 | 3.0 |
| 2014 | 8 | #12,180 | 4.5 |
| 2013 | 7 | #13,473 | 4.0 |
| 2011 | 7 | #13,661 | 4.0 |
| 2010 | 6 | #15,371 | 3.4 |
| 2009 | 7 | #13,999 | 3.8 |
| 2008 | 7 | #14,154 | 3.7 |
| 2007 | 5 | #18,209 | 2.6 |
| 2006 | 6 | #15,532 | 3.2 |
Every recorded year (39)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 6 | #14,864 | 3.2 |
| 2004 | 10 | #10,057 | 5.4 |
| 2003 | 9 | #10,612 | 4.9 |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,400 | 5.0 |
| 2001 | 13 | #7,824 | 7.2 |
| 2000 | 17 | #6,262 | 9.4 |
| 1999 | 12 | #7,820 | 6.8 |
| 1998 | 15 | #6,444 | 8.5 |
| 1997 | 12 | #7,359 | 6.9 |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,140 | 3.4 |
| 1995 | 11 | #7,616 | 6.3 |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,247 | 5.6 |
| 1993 | 13 | #6,695 | 7.2 |
| 1992 | 17 | #5,520 | 9.2 |
| 1991 | 9 | #8,726 | 4.8 |
| 1990 | 14 | #6,182 | 7.4 |
| 1989 | 10 | #7,544 | 5.4 |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,453 | 3.9 |
| 1987 | 5 | #11,630 | 2.9 |
| 1986 | 10 | #6,688 | 5.8 |
| 1985 | 6 | #9,515 | 3.5 |
| 1984 | 11 | #5,964 | 6.5 |
| 1983 | 11 | #5,887 | 6.6 |
| 1982 | 9 | #6,986 | 5.3 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,274 | 4.2 |
| 1980 | 5 | #10,668 | 3.0 |
| 1979 | 9 | #6,795 | 5.6 |
| 1977 | 7 | #7,688 | 4.6 |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,553 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Chika a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 378 Americans recorded as Chika, 93% are girls and 7% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Chika: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Chika, and how old are they?
An estimated 370 Americans named Chika and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 30 years old and half are between 23 and 38. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,232 people named Chika (1,034 women and girls, 198 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 365 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.4 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 2 names spelled alike, given to 671 babies since 1880, Chika is the most given (56% 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 Chika
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 Chika and names like it
- Compare Chika and ChiekoBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sChika peaked in 1997.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Chika since 1910.
- Japanese namesWiktionary’s origin for Chika: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1997The year the most babies were named Chika.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Chika alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with CMost given first.