Chika — unisex name

What the Data Says About Chika

The Social Security Administration has registered 350 babies named Chika between 1976 and 2022, spanning 47 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Chika currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2022. The name reached its historical peak in 1992, when 17 babies received it in a single year. Chika is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 28 additional births since 1984.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Chika performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 119 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Chika shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 11 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Georgia and Maryland. In total, SSA state-level files list Chika in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Chika 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 350 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.