Chaka

Where Chaka comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Chaka.

  • Vowel-ended
Chaka through the years
  1. 1956
    Chaka Fattah born
    American politician
  2. 1974
    Around this time: Chaka Khan with Rufus
    Person, 1974 · Source
  3. 1974
    Chaka Daley born
    Canadian soccer player-coach
  4. 1974
    First appearance
    #4,041 among girls with 15 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  5. 1976
    Peak, #897
    147 babies named Chaka, the most in any year.
  6. 1979
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #1,605.
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

Namesakes
  • Chaka Fattah · American politician, born 1956
  • Chaka Daley · Canadian soccer player-coach, born 1974

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record. Events show what happened around then, not why parents chose the name.