Chole
Chole was given to 35 girls in 2025, #4,087 among girls’ names; 2,020 Americans have been recorded with it since 1980 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,000 Americans named Chole and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 11 and 25.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Chole by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Chole?
#4,087 among girls’ names, 2025
Chole fell from #3,036 in 2015 to #4,087 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 31.4 to 21.8 per million.
97 babies in 2009, the peak
Chole peaked in 2009, when 97 girls were given it, #2,091 among girls’ names. The 35 births of 2025 are 36% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 35 | #4,087 | 21.8 |
| 2024 | 43 | #3,589 | 26.5 |
| 2023 | 43 | #3,601 | 26.8 |
| 2022 | 43 | #3,613 | 26.2 |
| 2021 | 46 | #3,400 | 28.0 |
| 2020 | 53 | #3,031 | 32.8 |
| 2019 | 40 | #3,732 | 23.8 |
| 2018 | 64 | #2,694 | 37.6 |
| 2017 | 44 | #3,496 | 25.5 |
| 2016 | 44 | #3,535 | 24.8 |
Every recorded year (44)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 56 | #3,036 | 31.4 |
| 2014 | 77 | #2,378 | 43.1 |
| 2013 | 54 | #3,049 | 30.8 |
| 2012 | 67 | #2,661 | 38.0 |
| 2011 | 69 | #2,593 | 39.2 |
| 2010 | 77 | #2,432 | 43.3 |
| 2009 | 97 | #2,091 | 52.8 |
| 2008 | 93 | #2,160 | 49.2 |
| 2007 | 75 | #2,492 | 39.0 |
| 2006 | 66 | #2,710 | 34.7 |
| 2005 | 67 | #2,554 | 36.3 |
| 2004 | 69 | #2,448 | 37.6 |
| 2003 | 84 | #2,091 | 46.0 |
| 2002 | 75 | #2,202 | 41.7 |
| 2001 | 65 | #2,410 | 36.1 |
| 2000 | 76 | #2,122 | 41.8 |
| 1999 | 38 | #3,328 | 21.4 |
| 1998 | 36 | #3,359 | 20.4 |
| 1997 | 23 | #4,537 | 13.2 |
| 1996 | 34 | #3,373 | 19.4 |
| 1995 | 25 | #4,113 | 14.2 |
| 1994 | 48 | #2,592 | 26.9 |
| 1993 | 20 | #4,856 | 11.1 |
| 1992 | 34 | #3,276 | 18.4 |
| 1991 | 37 | #3,039 | 19.7 |
| 1990 | 23 | #4,262 | 12.1 |
| 1989 | 22 | #4,263 | 11.9 |
| 1988 | 12 | #6,344 | 6.7 |
| 1987 | 15 | #5,111 | 8.6 |
| 1986 | 8 | #7,886 | 4.7 |
| 1985 | 6 | #9,518 | 3.5 |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,327 | 4.2 |
| 1981 | 5 | #10,701 | 3.0 |
| 1980 | 5 | #10,673 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Chole a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Chole has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 44 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Chole: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Chole, and how old are they?
2,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,020 Americans ever recorded as Chole. The median Chole alive today is 18 years old; half are between 11 and 25.
The 2020 Census counted 2,211 people named Chole (2,171 women and girls, 40 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,754 born in the U.S. The Census count is 26% above 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 5 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 289 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,070 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 638 |
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 Chole born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Carolina | 7 | #622 | 0.8× |
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 Chole 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 260,265 babies since 1880, Chole is the second most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 35 of their 6,274 babies (<1%), again the second most given.
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 Chole
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 Chole and names like it
- Compare Chole and ChloeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sChole peaked in 2009.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Chole since 1910.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Chole.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Chole alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with CMost given first.