Chyna
Chyna was given to 27 girls in 2025, #4,901 among girls’ names; 5,805 Americans have been recorded with it since 1979 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,730 Americans named Chyna and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 26 years old and half are between 16 and 28.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Chyna by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Chyna?
#4,901 among girls’ names, 2025
Chyna fell from #1,719 in 2015 to #4,901 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 68.3 to 16.8 per million.
573 babies in 1999, the peak
Chyna peaked in 1999, when 573 girls were given it, #463 among girls’ names. The 27 births of 2025 are 5% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 27 | #4,901 | 0.02 |
| 2024 | 18 | #6,453 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 29 | #4,668 | 0.02 |
| 2022 | 38 | #3,903 | 0.02 |
| 2021 | 52 | #3,124 | 0.03 |
| 2020 | 41 | #3,630 | 0.03 |
| 2019 | 49 | #3,242 | 0.03 |
| 2018 | 69 | #2,537 | 0.04 |
| 2017 | 77 | #2,364 | 0.04 |
| 2016 | 102 | #1,960 | 0.06 |
Every recorded year (46)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 122 | #1,719 | 0.07 |
| 2014 | 139 | #1,564 | 0.08 |
| 2013 | 171 | #1,364 | 0.10 |
| 2012 | 224 | #1,108 | 0.13 |
| 2011 | 163 | #1,403 | 0.09 |
| 2010 | 142 | #1,563 | 0.08 |
| 2009 | 113 | #1,867 | 0.06 |
| 2008 | 101 | #2,044 | 0.05 |
| 2007 | 84 | #2,300 | 0.04 |
| 2006 | 91 | #2,135 | 0.05 |
| 2005 | 111 | #1,769 | 0.06 |
| 2004 | 151 | #1,379 | 0.08 |
| 2003 | 160 | #1,297 | 0.09 |
| 2002 | 212 | #1,023 | 0.12 |
| 2001 | 395 | #639 | 0.22 |
| 2000 | 500 | #527 | 0.28 |
| 1999 | 573 | #463 | 0.32 |
| 1998 | 404 | #598 | 0.23 |
| 1997 | 288 | #740 | 0.17 |
| 1996 | 202 | #952 | 0.12 |
| 1995 | 114 | #1,424 | 0.06 |
| 1994 | 101 | #1,532 | 0.06 |
| 1993 | 127 | #1,316 | 0.07 |
| 1992 | 151 | #1,163 | 0.08 |
| 1991 | 117 | #1,373 | 0.06 |
| 1990 | 91 | #1,631 | 0.05 |
| 1989 | 141 | #1,161 | 0.08 |
| 1988 | 27 | #3,496 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 24 | #3,638 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 12 | #5,832 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,329 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,245 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 10 | #6,444 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,282 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 12 | #5,600 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 10 | #6,280 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Chyna a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Chyna has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 46 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Chyna: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Chyna, and how old are they?
5,730 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 5,805 Americans ever recorded as Chyna. The median Chyna alive today is 26 years old; half are between 16 and 28.
The 2020 Census counted 4,498 people named Chyna (4,486 women and girls, 12 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,552 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 21 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,110 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,670 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 928 |
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 Chyna born?
The states with the most babies named Chyna are Texas, New York and Georgia, with 28% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 416 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| New York | 390 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Georgia | 388 | not ranked | 2.1× |
| California | 334 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Florida | 303 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| North Carolina | 283 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 202 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Virginia | 199 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Louisiana | 175 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| Illinois | 173 | not ranked | 0.7× |
Where Chyna is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Chyna is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1979 it was given 2.3 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 Chyna 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 7 names spelled alike, given to 13,458 babies since 1880, Chyna is the most given (43% of them). In 2025 it was given to 27 of their 35 babies (77%), again the 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 Chyna
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 Chyna and names like it
- Compare Chyna and ChinaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sChyna peaked in 1999.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Chyna since 1910.
- The top names of 1999The year the most babies were named Chyna.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Chyna alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with CMost given first.