Chidi

Boys' name

God exists + is

Chidi has been given to 212 babies in the U.S. since 1981. 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 2001, with 12 recorded.

Babies named Chidi, 2023

1 in 663,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Chidi: meaning, origin, and history

God exists + is

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Chidi means

Chidi means “God exists + is”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Chidi is used in Igbo.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 212 boys were recorded with the name Chidi between 1981 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 12 in 2001; its best national rank was #3,729 in 1982.

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 Chidi?

Chidi had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023: 1 in 663,000; 5 of 3,314,783 births
Among boys only: 1 in 342,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2023: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 459,528 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Chidi 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 2023 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 459,528 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Chidi. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Chidis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Chidi was born before 2001 — so the typical Chidi is around 24 today.

Median birth year: 2001; About 24 years old
Biggest decade: 2000s; 31.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 59.9%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 212; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2000s — 31.6% of all recorded uses (67).

Is Chidi 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 2001 (12)
Years since peak: 24; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 27.6% average annual change
Best rank ever: #3,729; 1982

Spellings of Chidi

Chidi is not the most common spelling — Chad is, with 94.6% against Chidi's 0.08%.

Chad94.6%240,728
Chip1.4%3,493
Hadi1.00%2,535
Chadd0.97%2,456
Codi0.79%2,021
Chico0.37%951
Shadi0.28%719
Clide0.28%718

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 Chidi is used

Across 1910–2025, Chidi was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,905,450 across all states with data.

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1California1 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. Chidi has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Chidi around the world

Where Chidi 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
1997–2025
#3,256
in 2025

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

Chidi 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: #3,729; 1982
Peak year: 2001; 12 that year
First recorded: 1981
Last recorded: 2023
All-time count: 212
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Chidi

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

Chike Chief Chisom Chiron Chima Chino Chicago Ching Chinedu Chick Chipper Chibueze Chin Chivas Chi Sidi Chisum Chico Chilton Chidubem Chidera Chinonso Chioke Chinmay

Sibling names for Chidi

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

Magaly Nyah Sheridan Lesli Nya Shyann Alysa Danae

For a brother

Destin Dallin Donavon Kevon Zakary Keyon Keshawn Syed

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