Chyna
#4,878 for girls in 2025, 27 births
- Peak · girls
- 1999 · 573 births
- Debut · girls
- 10 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 5,805since 1979
Chyna over time
Rank among girls' names. Chyna has never cracked the top 400 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #4,878 | 27 |
| 2024 | #6,394 | 18 |
| 2023 | #4,655 | 29 |
| 2022 | #3,893 | 38 |
| 2021 | #3,112 | 52 |
| 2020 | #3,607 | 41 |
| 2019 | #3,222 | 49 |
| 2018 | #2,532 | 69 |
| 2017 | #2,357 | 77 |
| 2016 | #1,956 | 102 |
| 2015 | #1,719 | 122 |
| 2014 | #1,562 | 139 |
| 2013 | #1,362 | 171 |
| 2012 | #1,108 | 224 |
| 2011 | #1,402 | 163 |
| 2010 | #1,562 | 142 |
| 2009 | #1,866 | 113 |
| 2008 | #2,042 | 101 |
| 2007 | #2,293 | 84 |
| 2006 | #2,127 | 91 |
| 2005 | #1,767 | 111 |
| 2004 | #1,380 | 151 |
| 2003 | #1,297 | 160 |
| 2002 | #1,022 | 212 |
| 2001 | #639 | 395 |
| 2000 | #527 | 500 |
| 1999 | #463 | 573 |
| 1998 | #597 | 404 |
| 1997 | #740 | 288 |
| 1996 | #950 | 202 |
| 1995 | #1,426 | 114 |
| 1994 | #1,535 | 101 |
| 1993 | #1,318 | 127 |
| 1992 | #1,164 | 151 |
| 1991 | #1,375 | 117 |
| 1990 | #1,634 | 91 |
| 1989 | #1,164 | 141 |
| 1988 | #3,483 | 27 |
| 1987 | #3,624 | 24 |
| 1986 | #5,757 | 12 |
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| 1984 | #8,153 | 7 |
| 1983 | #9,015 | 6 |
| 1982 | #6,371 | 10 |
| 1981 | #8,128 | 7 |
| 1980 | #5,544 | 12 |
| 1979 | #6,189 | 10 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Chyna! It came in at #6,189, and was given to 10 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1985, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Chyna is popular in 1998
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- District of Columbia#124 · 1 in 391
- Virginia#267 · 1 in 1,356
- New Jersey#297 · 1 in 1,659
- South Carolina#298 · 1 in 1,526
- North Carolina#328 · 1 in 1,754
Best ever in a state: #124 in District of Columbia, 1998.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| District of Columbia | #124 | 9 | 1 in 391 |
| Virginia | #267 | 25 | 1 in 1,356 |
| New Jersey | #297 | 25 | 1 in 1,659 |
| South Carolina | #298 | 11 | 1 in 1,526 |
| North Carolina | #328 | 24 | 1 in 1,754 |
| Pennsylvania | #346 | 27 | 1 in 2,159 |
| Louisiana | #359 | 12 | 1 in 1,821 |
| Georgia | #372 | 21 | 1 in 2,121 |
| Connecticut | #373 | 7 | 1 in 2,220 |
| New York | #403 | 42 | 1 in 2,398 |
| Mississippi | #408 | 6 | 1 in 2,030 |
| Tennessee | #422 | 12 | 1 in 2,544 |
| Alabama | #442 | 8 | 1 in 2,606 |
| Arkansas | #453 | 5 | 1 in 2,380 |
| Maryland | #454 | 9 | 1 in 2,660 |
| Kentucky | #492 | 6 | 1 in 3,399 |
| Michigan | #525 | 15 | 1 in 3,434 |
| Oklahoma | #525 | 6 | 1 in 2,818 |
| Wisconsin | #529 | 7 | 1 in 3,602 |
| Missouri | #555 | 8 | 1 in 3,711 |
| Florida | #641 | 17 | 1 in 4,369 |
| Massachusetts | #653 | 6 | 1 in 5,317 |
| Ohio | #688 | 11 | 1 in 5,602 |
| Indiana | #740 | 6 | 1 in 5,513 |
| Texas | #771 | 27 | 1 in 5,313 |
| Illinois | #851 | 11 | 1 in 6,401 |
| California | #1,068 | 24 | 1 in 9,209 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Chyna
- 1,516 spots since 2024 (#6,394 → #4,878)
- 1,271 spots since 2020 (#3,607 → #4,878)
- 3,159 spots since 2015 (#1,719 → #4,878)
- Biggest jump: 476 spots in 1996 (#1,426 → #950)
- Biggest drop: 383 spots in 2002 (#639 → #1,022)
- Debuted 1979
- Peaked 1999 at #463 (573 births)
- Births halved by 2002, 3 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 6 yrs · run 1996–2001
- Highest: 1 in 3,096 girls born in 1999 were named Chyna (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 59,528 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 37.3% of all girls named Chyna (2,168) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 10 | #6,189 (1979) | #6,189 |
| 1980s | 246 | #1,164 (1989) | #5,693 |
| 1990s | 2,168 | #463 (1999) | #1,120 |
| 2000s | 1,918 | #527 (2000) | #1,496 |
| 2010s | 1,258 | #1,108 (2012) | #1,878 |
| 2020s | 205 | #3,112 (2021) | #4,423 |
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.
Chyna in 1998
Top girls' names in 1998
More about 1998
girls
1,766,949 girls got a published name in 1998; 1 in 4,374 of them was named Chyna, which outranked 96.4% of the 16,601 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).