Chimere
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Chimere has been given to 829 babies in the U.S. since 1979. 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 1980, with 167 recorded.
Babies named Chimere, 2015
1 in 529,000
Chimere 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Chimere?
Chimere had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2015, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2015
- 1 in 529,000
- 7 of 3,701,574 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 255,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2015
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 366,535 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Chimere sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2015 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 366,535 children born in 2015 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Chimere. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Chimeres were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Chimere was born before 1982 — so the typical Chimere is around 43 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 79.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 9.6%
- Mostly a past generation
- Recorded since 1950
- 824
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 79.6% of all recorded uses (656).
Is Chimere 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 1980 (167)
- Years since peak
- 45
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 31.8% average annual change
Spellings of Chimere
Chimere is not the most common spelling — Chere is, with 40.8% against Chimere's 25.0%.
Where Chimere is used
Across 1910–2025, Chimere was most concentrated in Maryland — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 239,511 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Maryland1 in 50,000
- 2Florida1 in 100,000
- 3Georgia1 in 100,000
- 4Michigan1 in 100,000
- 5New Jersey1 in 100,000
- 6Virginia1 in 100,000
- 7California1 in —
- 8Connecticut1 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. Chimere has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Chimere around the world
Where Chimere 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.
- South Australia1992–1997#681in 1997
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Chimere by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Chimere
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Chimere
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.