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Chyna

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Chyna is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 18 births. Its best rank was 463rd, in 1999.

Rank in 2024
outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024
180.00% of girls
Peak year
1999573 births
Best rank
#463in 1999
Since 1979
5,777people given the name
Babies named Chyna, by year of birthgirls
02505007501k18801900192019401960198020002020

The story in the numbers

5,777 girls have been named Chyna in the United States since 1979, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1999, with 573 births.

The name has all but left use: 18 births in 2024, against 573 at the peak.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 2000, and the 1990s alone account for 38%. It has spent 6 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among girls, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
#1#250#500#750#100018801900192019401960198020002020

By decade

Decadegirls named Chyna
1970s10
1980s246
1990s2,168
2000s1,917
2010s1,258
2020s178

In 1999, its biggest year

Chyna was the 463rd most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1999 were Emily, Hannah, Alexis, Sarah and Samantha. See all of 1999.

Names that rose and fell with Chyna

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

Other spellings in the data

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.