Chiquita

Where Chiquita comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Chiquita.

  • Vowel-ended
Chiquita through the years
  1. 1917
    First appearance
    #3,344 among girls with 8 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1985
    Peak, #532
    373 babies named Chiquita, the most in any year.
  3. 1989
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #960.
In the dictionary

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Namesakes
  • Chiquita Brooks-LaSure · Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services since 2021

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.