Chigozie

girls:

6 births since 1999

#5710 (0th percentile)

boys:

143 births since 1994

#4443 (3rd percentile)

overall:

149 births since 1994

#7590 (2nd percentile)

Popularity Trends

The name Chigozie is the #7,590 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 149 recorded births since 1994. This represents the 1.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,443 (3.1% percentile) for all time with 143 births since 1994. For girls, it ranks #5,710 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 6 births since 1999.

Chigozie first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1994 (1994 for boys and 1999 for girls). Birth data for Chigozie is available in 21 out of the 26 years between 1994 and 2019 (20 years for boys and 1 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.

The name Chigozie has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 96.0% of all recorded births being male.

For boys, Chigozie reached its peak popularity in 2005, achieving the 0.8% percentile (ranked #866) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 2005, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.8% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2019.

For girls, Chigozie reached its peak popularity in 1999, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #885) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1999, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1999.

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Chigozie".

1994 2019 19942019

Key Statistics

Total Births
6
Peak Births
6
Peak Year
1999
First Recorded
1999
Peak Percentile
0.1%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#885
Current Rank
Female statistics
Total Births
143
Peak Births
12
Peak Year
2005
First Recorded
1994
Peak Percentile
0.8%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#866
Current Rank
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Chigozie

Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Chigozie. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.

Our model is 40.0% confident that Chigozie is pronounced as chih-GOH-zee, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is chee-GOH-zee, at 28.6% confidence, with 3 syllables.

chih-GOH-zee (3 syllables)
40.0% confidence
CH IH0 G OW1 Z IY0
chee-GOH-zee (3 syllables)
28.6% confidence
CH IY0 G OW1 Z IY0
CHEE-goh-zee (3 syllables)
20.0% confidence
CH IY1 G OW0 Z IY0
CHEE-goh-zee-eh (4 syllables)
5.7% confidence
CH IY1 G OW0 Z IY0 EH0
chee-GAW-zee (3 syllables)
5.7% confidence
CH IY0 G AO1 Z IY0

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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About Pronunciation Data

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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like CH IH0 G OW1 Z IY0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

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