Chiquita
Chiquita was last recorded in 2005, when 6 babies were given it; 6,225 Americans have been recorded with it between 1917 and 2005 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,710 Americans named Chiquita and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (92% of everyone recorded); the median is 46 years old and half are between 39 and 53.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Chiquita by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Chiquita?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,865, in 2005; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
373 babies in 1985, the peak
Chiquita peaked in 1985, when 373 girls were given it, #533 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 6 | #14,865 | under 0.01 |
| 2003 | 7 | #12,677 | under 0.01 |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,401 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 11 | #8,888 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 16 | #6,547 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 11 | #8,342 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 23 | #4,661 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 29 | #3,829 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 26 | #4,078 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 39 | #2,981 | 0.02 |
Every recorded year (77)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | 58 | #2,259 | 0.03 |
| 1993 | 87 | #1,706 | 0.05 |
| 1992 | 148 | #1,181 | 0.08 |
| 1991 | 191 | #980 | 0.10 |
| 1990 | 176 | #1,024 | 0.09 |
| 1989 | 181 | #959 | 0.10 |
| 1988 | 202 | #872 | 0.11 |
| 1987 | 258 | #710 | 0.15 |
| 1986 | 335 | #578 | 0.20 |
| 1985 | 373 | #533 | 0.22 |
| 1984 | 191 | #822 | 0.11 |
| 1983 | 173 | #874 | 0.10 |
| 1982 | 185 | #843 | 0.11 |
| 1981 | 153 | #957 | 0.09 |
| 1980 | 184 | #846 | 0.11 |
| 1979 | 212 | #759 | 0.13 |
| 1978 | 197 | #779 | 0.13 |
| 1977 | 214 | #722 | 0.14 |
| 1976 | 197 | #745 | 0.13 |
| 1975 | 216 | #692 | 0.15 |
| 1974 | 214 | #687 | 0.15 |
| 1973 | 222 | #671 | 0.15 |
| 1972 | 206 | #703 | 0.14 |
| 1971 | 97 | #1,177 | 0.06 |
| 1970 | 82 | #1,308 | 0.05 |
| 1969 | 85 | #1,208 | 0.05 |
| 1968 | 75 | #1,269 | 0.05 |
| 1967 | 68 | #1,324 | 0.04 |
| 1966 | 78 | #1,214 | 0.05 |
| 1965 | 71 | #1,275 | 0.04 |
| 1964 | 67 | #1,375 | 0.04 |
| 1963 | 50 | #1,598 | 0.03 |
| 1962 | 35 | #1,950 | 0.02 |
| 1961 | 44 | #1,720 | 0.02 |
| 1960 | 36 | #1,893 | 0.02 |
| 1959 | 38 | #1,797 | 0.02 |
| 1958 | 54 | #1,449 | 0.03 |
| 1957 | 63 | #1,333 | 0.03 |
| 1956 | 48 | #1,534 | 0.02 |
| 1955 | 33 | #1,845 | 0.02 |
| 1954 | 54 | #1,366 | 0.03 |
| 1953 | 34 | #1,709 | 0.02 |
| 1952 | 34 | #1,687 | 0.02 |
| 1951 | 28 | #1,845 | 0.02 |
| 1950 | 28 | #1,795 | 0.02 |
| 1949 | 23 | #2,020 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 20 | #2,198 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 26 | #1,904 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 14 | #2,626 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 11 | #2,767 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 8 | #3,428 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 12 | #2,728 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 13 | #2,555 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 9 | #3,052 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 11 | #2,591 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 16 | #2,051 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 9 | #2,970 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 8 | #3,189 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 7 | #3,423 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 13 | #2,323 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 15 | #2,104 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 12 | #2,425 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 11 | #2,668 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 8 | #3,441 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 8 | #3,476 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 5 | #5,201 | under 0.01 |
| 1917 | 8 | #3,396 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Chiquita a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Chiquita has been given almost only to girls: 6 boys in 77 years of records.
Girls and boys named Chiquita: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Chiquita, and how old are they?
5,710 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 92% of the 6,225 Americans ever recorded as Chiquita. The median Chiquita alive today is 46 years old; half are between 39 and 53.
The 2020 Census counted 4,744 people named Chiquita (4,735 women and girls, 9 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,850 born in the U.S. The Census count is 19% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 56 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 580 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 2,260 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,700 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 110 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Chiquita born?
The states with the most babies named Chiquita are Georgia, Illinois and Florida, with 41% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia | 718 | not ranked | 4.3× |
| Illinois | 635 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| Florida | 477 | not ranked | 2.1× |
| Mississippi | 402 | not ranked | 5.1× |
| Alabama | 358 | not ranked | 3.2× |
| Louisiana | 355 | not ranked | 2.8× |
| North Carolina | 282 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Tennessee | 241 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| Virginia | 216 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| South Carolina | 162 | not ranked | 1.8× |
Where Chiquita is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Chiquita is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1917 it was given 5.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Chiquita with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 6,464 babies since 1880, Chiquita is the most given (96% 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 Chiquita
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 Chiquita and names like it
- Compare Chiquita and ChiquittaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sChiquita peaked in 1985.
- Georgia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Chiquita since 1910.
- The top names of 1985The year the most babies were named Chiquita.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Chiquita alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with CMost given first.