girls:
5.8k births since 1979
#2192 (62nd percentile)
overall:
5.8k births since 1979
#3581 (54th percentile)
The name Chyna is the #3,581 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 5,756 recorded births since 1979. This represents the 53.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 53.7% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,192 (61.6% percentile) for all time with 5,756 births since 1979.
Chyna first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1979 (first recorded for girls in 1979). Birth data for Chyna is available in 44 out of the 45 years between 1979 and 2023. 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.
For girls, Chyna reached its peak popularity in 1999, achieving the 52.1% percentile (ranked #425) with 294 births per million. The name was most common in 1999, with 294 births per million (ranked 52.1% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2014, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Chyna ranks #924 for girls (2.4% percentile) with 16 births per million, which is 5.4% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Chyna".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Chyna is pronounced as CHAI-nuh, which has 2 syllables.
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