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Chieko

Girls' name

Japanese name; meaning depends on kanji

Chieko has been given to 293 babies in the U.S. since 1913. 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 1919, with 24 recorded.

Babies named Chieko, 1991

1 in 779,000

Chieko over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Chieko: meaning, origin, and history

Japanese name; meaning depends on kanji

Japanese

What Chieko means

Chieko is documented with more than one possible Japanese character combination. The Latin-letter spelling records a pronunciation; it does not specify one unique kanji spelling or one universal meaning.

Possible character meanings include thousand, wisdom, intellect, favour, benefit, child.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Chieko is used in Japanese.

Another recorded pronunciation is /t͡ɕi.e̞.ko̞/ for Chieko.

Origin, language, and formation

Chieko is used in English. Its origins include Japanese.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 293 girls were recorded with the name Chieko between 1913 and 1991. Its highest annual count was 24 in 1919; its best national rank was #1,657 in 1919.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Chieko?

Chieko had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1991, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1991
1 in 779,000
5 of 3,892,928 births
Among girls only
1 in 375,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1991
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
539,676 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Chieko sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1991 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 539,676 children born in 1991 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Chieko. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Chiekos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Chieko was born before 1924 — so the typical Chieko is around 101 today.

Median birth year
1924
About 101 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
59.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
4.1%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
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1920s — 59.0% of all recorded uses (173).

Is Chieko 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
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1919 (24)
Years since peak
106
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
37.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,657
1919

Spellings of Chieko

Chieko is not the most common spelling — Cielo is, with 85.1% against Chieko's 5.2%.

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 Chieko is used

Across 1910–2025, Chieko was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 2,381 girls, against 1 in 84,149 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

042 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Hawaii1 in 2,381
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Washington1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Chieko has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Chieko by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,657
1919
Peak year
1919
24 that year
First recorded
1913
Last recorded
1991
All-time count
293
Count in 2025
Under 5

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Sibling names for Chieko

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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