Chyna

Where Chyna comes from

The dictionaries list Chyna as a given name — alternative spelling of China — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1979
    First appearance
    #6,189 among girls, 10 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1999
    Peak, #463
    573 babies named Chyna — more than any year before or since.
  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 known Chyna turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.

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.