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Chioma

#6,371 in 2025Girls' name

Good God + good, beautiful

Chioma has been given to 998 babies in the U.S. since 1972. In 2025 it ranked #6,371 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1997, with 40 recorded.

Babies named Chioma, 2025

1 in 184,000

Chioma over time, 1880–2025

Girls
01020304018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Chioma: meaning, origin, and history

Good God + good, beautiful

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Chioma means

Chioma means “good God + good, beautiful”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 998 girls were recorded with the name Chioma between 1972 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 40 in 1997; its best national rank was #2,983 in 1997.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,353 in 2020 to #6,371 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #6,781 in 2015 to #6,371 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 Chioma?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 184,000
18 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 89,300
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#6,371
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
127,662 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Chioma 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 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 127,662 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Chioma. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Chiomas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Chioma was born before 2003 — so the typical Chioma is around 22 today.

Median birth year
2003
About 22 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
27.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
56.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
998
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Choose a decade

2000s — 27.8% of all recorded uses (277).

Is Chioma 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
+315
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,018
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+410
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.00×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
45.0%
Peak was 1997 (40)
Years since peak
28
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
17.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,983
1997

Spellings of Chioma

Chioma is not the most common spelling — Chiara is, with 39.3% against Chioma's 6.6%.

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 Chioma is used

Across 1910–2025, Chioma was most concentrated in Maryland — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 242,650 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Maryland1 in 100,000
  2. 2Texas1 in 100,000
  3. 3California1 in —
  4. 4Georgia1 in —
  5. 5New Jersey1 in —
  6. 6New 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. Chioma has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Chioma around the world

Where Chioma 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
    #1,639
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2002–2017
    #873
    in 2017
  • France
    1995–2023
    #5,426
    in 2023
  • Canada
    2013–2019
    #3,370
    in 2019
  • South Australia
    2010–2010
    #801
    in 2010

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Chioma by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#6,371
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,018
Best rank ever
#2,983
1997
Peak year
1997
40 that year
First recorded
1972
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
998
Count in 2025
18

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

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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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