Chimamanda
#4,789 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Chimamanda has been given to 541 babies in the U.S. since 2008. In 2025 it ranked #4,789 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2018, with 60 recorded.
Babies named Chimamanda, 2025
1 in 118,000
Chimamanda over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Chimamanda?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 118,000
- 28 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 57,400
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #4,789
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 82,069 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Chimamanda sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 82,069 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Chimamanda. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Chimamandas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Chimamanda was born before 2018 — so the typical Chimamanda is around 7 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 63.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 541
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 63.6% of all recorded uses (344).
Is Chimamanda 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
- −385
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −939
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −1,177
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.65×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 46.7%
- Peak was 2018 (60)
- Years since peak
- 7
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 27.7% average annual change
Where Chimamanda is used
Across 1910–2025, Chimamanda was most concentrated in Maryland — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 230,589 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Maryland1 in 100,000
- 2Texas1 in 100,000
- 3California1 in —
- 4Georgia1 in —
- 5New York1 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. Chimamanda has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Chimamanda around the world
Where Chimamanda 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 & Wales2008–2025#596in 2025
- Scotland2015–2025#632in 2025
- Northern Ireland2025–2025#397in 2025
- Ireland2025–2025#544in 2025
- France2018–2024#6,039in 2024
- Canada2014–2024#772in 2024
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Chimamanda by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Chimamanda
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Chimamanda
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.