Chimere
Chimere was last recorded in 2015, when 7 babies were given it; 829 Americans have been recorded with it between 1979 and 2015 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Chimere by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Chimere?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,304, in 2015; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
167 babies in 1980, the peak
Chimere peaked in 1980, when 167 girls were given it, #902 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 7 | #13,304 | under 0.01 |
| 2008 | 7 | #14,155 | under 0.01 |
| 2007 | 10 | #11,000 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 6 | #15,533 | under 0.01 |
| 2002 | 5 | #15,948 | under 0.01 |
| 2001 | 5 | #15,845 | under 0.01 |
| 2000 | 8 | #10,932 | under 0.01 |
| 1995 | 7 | #10,736 | under 0.01 |
| 1993 | 5 | #13,881 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,193 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (23)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | 9 | #8,727 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 11 | #7,398 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 12 | #6,615 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 17 | #4,878 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 10 | #6,883 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 31 | #2,986 | 0.02 |
| 1985 | 32 | #2,871 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 57 | #1,867 | 0.03 |
| 1983 | 60 | #1,771 | 0.04 |
| 1982 | 123 | #1,141 | 0.07 |
| 1981 | 147 | #993 | 0.09 |
| 1980 | 167 | #902 | 0.10 |
| 1979 | 78 | #1,503 | 0.05 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Chimere a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Chimere has been given almost only to girls: 5 boys in 23 years of records.
Girls and boys named Chimere: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Chimere, and how old are they?
An estimated 799 Americans named Chimere and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 44 years old and half are between 42 and 46. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 752 people named Chimere (692 women and girls, 60 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 807 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
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 that rose and fell in the same decades as Chimere
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 Chimere and names like it
- Compare Chimere and SheenaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sChimere peaked in 1980.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Chimere since 1910.
- The top names of 1980The year the most babies were named Chimere.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Chimere alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with CMost given first.