Chibuike

Boys' name

God is strength

Chibuike has been given to 122 babies in the U.S. since 1997. 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 2006, with 9 recorded.

Babies named Chibuike, 2024

1 in 557,000

Chibuike over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Chibuike: meaning, origin, and history

God is strength

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Chibuike means

Chibuike means “God is strength”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Chibuike is used in Igbo.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 122 boys were recorded with the name Chibuike between 1997 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 9 in 2006; its best national rank was #7,404 in 1997.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

U.S. Social Security Administration: national name data and limitations

How common is Chibuike?

Chibuike had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024: 1 in 557,000; 6 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only: 1 in 287,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 386,177 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Chibuike sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 386,177 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Chibuike. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Chibuikes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Chibuike was born before 2007 — so the typical Chibuike is around 18 today.

Median birth year: 2007; About 18 years old
Biggest decade: 2000s; 50.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 86.1%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 122; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2000s — 50.0% of all recorded uses (61).

Is Chibuike 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 2006 (9)
Years since peak: 19; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 20.7% average annual change
Best rank ever: #7,404; 1997

Chibuike around the world

Where Chibuike ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

England & Wales
2000–2025
#5,137
in 2025

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Chibuike by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #7,404; 1997
Peak year: 2006; 9 that year
First recorded: 1997
Last recorded: 2024
All-time count: 122
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Chibuike

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Chike Chinonso Chibueze Chikamso Chicago Chidubem Chijioke Chigozie Chinedum Chidozie Chimaobi Chiron Chistian Chinedu Chipper Chibuikem Chisom Chinmay Chilton Chiemeka Chidera Chivas Chisum Chisholm

Sibling names for Chibuike

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Taniya Melia Jazmyne Jayna Nyasia Tayla Lanie Estefany

For a brother

Paulo Yair Lavon Tye Deshaun Oswaldo Nathen Britton

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