Girls' name · since 1985
Chinenye
187 babies named Chinenye in U.S. Social Security records since 1985, with the highest year being 2001. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- #20,494 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #15,491 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 187
- born since 1985
- 2000s
- peak decade
187 babies have been named Chinenye since 1985, making it today's #15491 girls' name.
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Chinenye has been recorded 187 times among girls since 1985, currently ranked #15491 nationally and more common than 10% of girls, with its heaviest use in the 2000s. This profile covers year-by-year birth trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution, all derived directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1985 to 2025.
- #20,494 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #15,491 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 187 born since 1985
- 2000s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Chinenye ranks #20,494 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #15,491 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 187 born since 1985, peaking in the 2000s.
- #20,494 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #15,491 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 187
- born since 1985
- 2000s
- peak decade
Chinenye's 187 recorded births place it above 71.61% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Chinenye compares
187 35th percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Chinenye's all-time total is 50% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Chinenye | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 187 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 11 | 21 | 19,840 |
Chinenye's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Chinenye's SSA record in two at 2005 and the more recent half accounts for 51% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 49%, a genuinely balanced usage pattern. Its calmest year was 1993, with only 5 births recorded -- set against the 2001 peak of 11, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Chinenye popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1985–2025
- Peak year (2001)
- 11
- Annual births at peak, across 41 years of records
Chinenye by decade
2000s is the heaviest window (79 births, 42% of the file).
2000s was Chinenye's strongest decade.
79 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 42% of all-time use.
Chinenye births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1980s 13
1980s
13 births
- 1990s
1990s
42 births
- 2000s
2000s
79 births
- 2010s
2010s
48 births
- 2020s 5
2020s
5 births
What this shows Peak: 2000s at 79 births (42% of all-time use).
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What to do with Chinenye's data
- Chinenye's decade-level peak was the 2000s (79 total births); usage has since declined to 5 in the 2020s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Two nationwide peer axes for Chinenye: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~2001)
Similar record span (~40 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1985–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Chinenye draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.