Chi
- #6,546 for girls in 2025, 17 births
- #8,243 for boys in 2025, 9 births
- Given to girls 57.5% of the time
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- Peak · girls
- 1973 · 29 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 763since 1970
Chi over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #6,546 | 17 | #8,243 | 9 |
| 2024 | #6,394 | 18 | #5,904 | 15 |
| 2023 | #4,363 | 32 | #5,927 | 15 |
| 2022 | #5,793 | 21 | #6,147 | 14 |
| 2021 | #4,964 | 26 | #7,587 | 10 |
| 2020 | #6,629 | 17 | #5,980 | 14 |
| 2019 | #6,414 | 18 | #7,173 | 11 |
| 2018 | #12,464 | 7 | #10,760 | 6 |
| 2017 | #8,776 | 12 | #7,546 | 10 |
| 2016 | #10,859 | 9 | — | |
| 2015 | #10,148 | 10 | — | |
| 2014 | #10,129 | 10 | — | |
| 2013 | #14,582 | 6 | #10,728 | 6 |
| 2012 | #9,711 | 11 | — | |
| 2011 | #12,153 | 8 | #12,287 | 5 |
| 2010 | — | — | ||
| 2009 | #9,379 | 12 | #9,864 | 7 |
| 2008 | #17,504 | 5 | #9,871 | 7 |
| 2007 | — | #10,921 | 6 | |
| 2006 | — | #8,732 | 8 | |
| 2005 | #7,500 | 15 | #8,299 | 8 |
| 2004 | #11,624 | 8 | #7,536 | 9 |
| 2003 | #15,784 | 5 | #8,643 | 7 |
| 2002 | #15,432 | 5 | #7,055 | 9 |
| 2001 | #11,020 | 8 | #5,667 | 12 |
| 2000 | #11,801 | 7 | #8,209 | 7 |
| 1999 | #12,688 | 6 | #6,530 | 9 |
| 1998 | #7,532 | 12 | #6,843 | 8 |
| 1997 | #9,802 | 8 | #6,618 | 8 |
| 1996 | #8,132 | 10 | #6,496 | 8 |
| 1995 | — | #4,791 | 12 | |
| 1994 | #5,984 | 15 | #3,596 | 18 |
| 1993 | #6,622 | 13 | #5,771 | 9 |
| 1992 | #5,267 | 18 | #4,564 | 12 |
| 1991 | #5,004 | 19 | #4,760 | 11 |
| 1990 | #4,120 | 24 | #4,407 | 12 |
| 1989 | #6,955 | 11 | #2,690 | 23 |
| 1988 | #4,840 | 17 | #3,350 | 15 |
| 1987 | #5,312 | 14 | #3,521 | 13 |
| 1986 | #4,539 | 17 | #4,853 | 8 |
| 1985 | #4,635 | 16 | #2,226 | 24 |
| 1984 | #3,233 | 26 | #3,270 | 13 |
| 1983 | #3,806 | 20 | #2,208 | 23 |
| 1982 | #3,172 | 27 | #2,341 | 21 |
| 1981 | #4,005 | 19 | #2,898 | 15 |
| 1980 | #3,318 | 25 | #3,430 | 12 |
| 1979 | #5,751 | 11 | #4,403 | 8 |
| 1978 | #3,777 | 19 | #3,857 | 9 |
| 1977 | #3,486 | 21 | #3,203 | 12 |
| 1976 | #3,407 | 20 | #2,508 | 17 |
| 1975 | #3,404 | 20 | #3,428 | 10 |
| 1974 | #2,616 | 28 | #2,799 | 13 |
| 1973 | #2,506 | 29 | #3,445 | 9 |
| 1972 | #7,292 | 6 | — | |
| 1971 | — | #3,146 | 10 | |
| 1970 | #7,995 | 5 | #4,230 | 6 |
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First appearance
1970
The first year at least five girls were named Chi! It came in at #7,995, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1970–1971, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Chi is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more girls named Chi in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Chi
Momentum · girls
Holding steady
- 152 spots since 2024 (#6,394 → #6,546)
- 83 spots since 2020 (#6,629 → #6,546)
- 3,602 spots since 2015 (#10,148 → #6,546)
Rise & fade · girls
3 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1970
- Peaked 1973 at #2,506 (29 births)
- Births halved by 1979, 6 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 50,143
- Highest: 1 in 50,143 girls born in 2023 were named Chi (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 94,545 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #2,506 in 1973, was only 1 in 50,283 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 1980s
- 25.2% of all girls named Chi (192) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2009
- Mostly boys until 2008, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 159 | #2,506 (1973) | #4,470 |
| 1980s | 192 | #3,172 (1982) | #4,382 |
| 1990s | 125 | #4,120 (1990) | #7,239 |
| 2000s | 65 | #7,500 (2005) | #12,506 |
| 2010s | 91 | #6,414 (2019) | #10,582 |
| 2020s | 131 | #4,363 (2023) | #5,782 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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