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Chike

#12,390 in 2025Boys' name

God of strength

Chike has been given to 188 babies in the U.S. since 1976. In 2025 it ranked #12,390 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2000, with 15 recorded.

Babies named Chike, 2025

1 in 663,000

Chike over time, 1880–2025

Boys
05101518801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Chike: meaning, origin, and history

God of strength

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Chike means

Chike means “God of strength”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Chike is used in Igbo.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 188 boys were recorded with the name Chike between 1976 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 15 in 2000; its best national rank was #4,186 in 1983.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #8,883 in 2020 to #12,390 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 Chike?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 342,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#12,390
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Chike 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Chike. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Chikes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Chike was born before 1991 — so the typical Chike is around 34 today.

Median birth year
1991
About 34 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
34.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
29.3%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
188
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 34.0% of all recorded uses (64).

Is Chike 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
+283
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−3,507
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
33.3%
Peak was 2000 (15)
Years since peak
25
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
42.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,186
1983

Spellings of Chike

Chike is not the most common spelling — Mike is, with 49.5% against Chike's 0.05%.

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.

Chike around the world

Where Chike 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
    1996–2025
    #4,275
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    2011–2011
    #784
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Chike by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#12,390
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 3,507
Best rank ever
#4,186
1983
Peak year
2000
15 that year
First recorded
1976
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
188
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Chike

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

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Sibling names for Chike

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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