Chiquita
Chiquita is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 533rd, in 1985.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1985373 births
- Best rank
- #533in 1985
- Since 1917
- 6,218people given the name
The story in the numbers
6,218 girls have been named Chiquita in the United States since 1917, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1985, with 373 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 373 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1979, and the 1980s alone account for 36%. It has spent 19 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Chiquita | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 8 | |
| 1920s | 21 | |
| 1930s | 91 | |
| 1940s | 147 | |
| 1950s | 414 | |
| 1960s | 609 | |
| 1970s | 1,857 | |
| 1980s | 2,234 | |
| 1990s | 788 | |
| 2000s | 49 |
In 1985, its biggest year
Chiquita was the 533rd most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1985 were Jessica, Ashley, Jennifer, Amanda and Sarah. See all of 1985.
Names that rose and fell with Chiquita
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Sherellpeak 1987
- Chericepeak 1975
- Shareepeak 1979
- Shanapeak 1984
- Tashiapeak 1985
- Sherapeak 1986
- Heatherpeak 1975
- Shontepeak 1985
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.