Chyna

Where Chyna comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Chyna.

  • Vowel-ended
Chyna through the years
  1. 1979
    First appearance
    #6,189 among girls with 10 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1999
    Peak, #463
    573 babies named Chyna, the most in any year.
  3. 2002
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #1,022.
In the dictionary
  • Alternative spelling of China.
Namesakes

No widely recognized namesakes for Chyna in Wikidata.

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.