Chimene
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Chimene has been given to 224 babies in the U.S. since 1962. 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 1970, with 56 recorded.
Babies named Chimene, 1989
1 in 768,000
Chimene 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Chimene?
Chimene had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1989, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1989
- 1 in 768,000
- 5 of 3,842,268 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 368,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1989
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 532,653 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Chimene sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1989 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 532,653 children born in 1989 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Chimene. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Chimenes were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Chimene was born before 1970 — so the typical Chimene is around 55 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1960s
- 47.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 77.2%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 224
- People you could plausibly meet
1960s — 47.3% of all recorded uses (106).
Is Chimene 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1970 (56)
- Years since peak
- 55
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 40.2% average annual change
Spellings of Chimene
Chimene is not the most common spelling — Chimere is, with 46.6% against Chimene's 12.7%.
Where Chimene is used
Across 1910–2025, Chimene was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 864,217 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2New 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. Chimene has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Chimene around the world
Where Chimene 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.
- France1941–2018#7,607in 2018
- South Australia1977–2001#711in 2001
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Chimene by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Chimene
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Chimene
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.