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Chidubem

#6,520 in 2025Boys' name

God is guiding me

Chidubem has been given to 369 babies in the U.S. since 1996. In 2025 it ranked #6,520 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2016, with 28 recorded.

Babies named Chidubem, 2025

1 in 255,000

Chidubem over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Chidubem: meaning, origin, and history

God is guiding me

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Chidubem means

Chidubem means “God is guiding me”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 369 boys were recorded with the name Chidubem between 1996 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 28 in 2016; its best national rank was #3,790 in 2016.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #6,701 in 2020 to #6,520 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #5,090 in 2015 to #6,520 in 2025.

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.

How common is Chidubem?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 255,000
13 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 131,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#6,520
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
176,762 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Chidubem 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 2025 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 176,762 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Chidubem. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Chidubems were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Chidubem was born before 2013 — so the typical Chidubem is around 12 today.

Median birth year
2013
About 12 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
48.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
92.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
369
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 48.0% of all recorded uses (177).

Is Chidubem 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
+3,565
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+181
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,430
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.72×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
46.4%
Peak was 2016 (28)
Years since peak
9
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
41.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,790
2016

Where Chidubem is used

Across 1910–2025, Chidubem was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 505,073 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Maryland1 in —
  3. 3Texas1 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. Chidubem has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Chidubem around the world

Where Chidubem 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
    #1,124
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2009–2010
    #720
    in 2010
  • Canada
    2009–2024
    #2,550
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Chidubem by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#6,520
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 181
Best rank ever
#3,790
2016
Peak year
2016
28 that year
First recorded
1996
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
369
Count in 2025
13

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Sibling names for Chidubem

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

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