Chiam
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Chiam has been given to 21 babies in the U.S. since 1959. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1993, with 6 recorded.
Babies named Chiam, 2008
1 in 786,000
Chiam over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Chiam?
Chiam had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2008, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2008
- 1 in 786,000
- 5 of 3,930,727 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 408,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2008
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 544,916 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Chiam sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2008 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 544,916 children born in 2008 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Chiam. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Chiams were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Chiam was born before 1993 — so the typical Chiam is around 32 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 52.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 76.2%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 21
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 52.4% of all recorded uses (11).
Is Chiam rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1993 (6)
- Years since peak
- 32
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Chiam
Chiam is not the most common spelling — Liam is, with 53.9% against Chiam's <0.01%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Chiam is used
Across 1910–2025, Chiam was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,332,384 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1New York1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Chiam has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Chiam by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Chiam
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Chiam
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.