Chinyere

Girls' name

God gave + give

Chinyere has been given to 585 babies in the U.S. since 1971. 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 1992, with 24 recorded.

Babies named Chinyere, 2021

1 in 565,000

Chinyere over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Chinyere: meaning, origin, and history

God gave + give

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Chinyere means

Chinyere means “God gave + give”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Chinyere is used in Igbo.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 585 girls were recorded with the name Chinyere between 1971 and 2021. Its highest annual count was 24 in 1992; its best national rank was #3,540 in 1982.

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.

U.S. Social Security Administration: national name data and limitations

How common is Chinyere?

Chinyere had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2021, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2021: 1 in 565,000; 6 of 3,389,958 births
Among girls only: 1 in 273,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2021: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 391,624 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Chinyere 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 2021 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 391,624 children born in 2021 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Chinyere. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Chinyeres were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Chinyere was born before 1992 — so the typical Chinyere is around 33 today.

Median birth year: 1992; About 33 years old
Biggest decade: 1990s; 30.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 37.6%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 585; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1990s — 30.4% of all recorded uses (178).

Is Chinyere 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: —; 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 1992 (24)
Years since peak: 33; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 25.2% average annual change
Best rank ever: #3,540; 1982

Spellings of Chinyere

Chinyere is not the most common spelling — Chimere is, with 58.5% against Chinyere's 41.5%.

Chimere58.5%824
Chinyere41.5%585

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 Chinyere is used

Across 1910–2025, Chinyere was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,942,861 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1California1 in —
2New York1 in —
3Texas1 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. Chinyere has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Chinyere around the world

Where Chinyere 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
2000–2025
#4,867
in 2025
Ireland
2004–2004
#677
in 2004
South Australia
2013–2013
#818
in 2013

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

Chinyere 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: #3,540; 1982
Peak year: 1992; 24 that year
First recorded: 1971
Last recorded: 2021
All-time count: 585
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Chinyere

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

Chimere Chiamaka Chizaram Chidera Chinenye Chizara Kashmere Cashmere Chimamanda Chisom Chizitere Chidinma Chikaima Chistina Chioma Chiyoko Syncere Chinelo Chiffon Chinere Gwynevere Gwenivere Chianti Chidimma

Sibling names for Chinyere

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Shelbi Shelbie Ilana Danyelle Kelsea Ivonne Maira Stormy

For a brother

Malcom Edgardo Arnulfo Dillan Devante Shay Rosendo Dimitri

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