Chiquita

Where Chiquita comes from

Chiquita hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1917
    First appearance
    #3,344 among girls, 8 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1985
    Peak, #532
    373 babies named Chiquita — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1989
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #960.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

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.