Chiquitta
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Chiquitta has been given to 168 babies in the U.S. since 1969. 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 1986, with 15 recorded.
Babies named Chiquitta, 1992
1 in 640,000
Chiquitta 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Chiquitta?
Chiquitta had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1992, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1992
- 1 in 640,000
- 6 of 3,839,369 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 307,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1992
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 443,542 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Chiquitta sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1992 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 443,542 children born in 1992 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Chiquitta. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Chiquittas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Chiquitta was born before 1983 — so the typical Chiquitta is around 42 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 54.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 168
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 54.2% of all recorded uses (91).
Is Chiquitta 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 1986 (15)
- Years since peak
- 39
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 29.3% average annual change
Spellings of Chiquitta
Chiquitta is not the most common spelling — Chiquita is, with 90.0% against Chiquitta's 2.4%.
Chiquitta around the world
Where Chiquitta 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 Australia1988–1988#657in 1988
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Chiquitta by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Chiquitta
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Chiquitta
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.