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Chiquita

Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Chiquita has been given to 6,225 babies in the U.S. since 1917. 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 1985, with 373 recorded.

Babies named Chiquita, 2005

1 in 641,000

Chiquita over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Chiquita: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Chiquita means

Chiquita is a given name.

The naming story behind Chiquita

Wikidata records Chiquita as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q59647213, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6,219 girls were recorded with the name Chiquita between 1917 and 2005. Its highest annual count was 373 in 1985; its best national rank was #533 in 1985.

In the United States, 6 boys were recorded with the name Chiquita between 1989 and 1989. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1989; its best national rank was #7,095 in 1989.

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 Chiquita?

Chiquita had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2005, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2005
1 in 641,000
6 of 3,844,258 births
Among girls only
1 in 308,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2005
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
444,107 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Chiquita 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 2005 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 444,107 children born in 2005 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Chiquita. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Chiquitas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Chiquita was born before 1979 — so the typical Chiquita is around 46 today.

Median birth year
1979
About 46 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
35.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
46.4%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
5,952
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1980s — 35.9% of all recorded uses (2,235).

Is Chiquita 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1985 (373)
Years since peak
40
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#533
1985

Spellings of Chiquita

Chiquita is the most-used spelling, taking 63.9% of the 9,737 babies given a near-identical spelling.

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 Chiquita is used

Across 1910–2025, Chiquita was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 5,000 girls, against 1 in 28,568 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

020 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Mississippi1 in 5,000
  2. 2Georgia1 in 6,250
  3. 3District of Columbia1 in 7,692
  4. 4Alabama1 in 8,333
  5. 5Louisiana1 in 8,333
  6. 6Florida1 in 11,111
  7. 7Illinois1 in 12,500
  8. 8South Carolina1 in 14,286

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. Chiquita has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Chiquita around the world

Where Chiquita 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
    1998–2005
    #4,798
    in 2005
  • South Australia
    1948–2008
    #796
    in 2008

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

Chiquita 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
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Best rank ever
#533
1985
Peak year
1985
373 that year
First recorded
1917
Last recorded
2005
All-time count
6,219
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#7,095
1989
Peak year
1989
6 that year
First recorded
1989
Last recorded
1989
All-time count
6
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Chiquita

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

ChinitaChiaraTeresitaAngelitaCarmelitaChiamakaChikitaChinaChizaramLupitaRositaChicquitaMaritaSaritaMarquitaLolitaAdelitaChideraLanitaLaquitaNikitaChiomaJaunitaJovita

Names with a curve like Chiquita

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Chiquita, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

CorySharaSharondaLaquitaToshaDanelleStephenieChristopherSheritaVenessaMellissaCharissa

Sibling names for Chiquita

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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