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Chirag

Boys' name

Lamp, light

Chirag has been given to 667 babies in the U.S. since 1973. 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 33 recorded.

Babies named Chirag, 2023

1 in 552,000

Chirag over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Chirag: meaning, origin, and history

Lamp, light

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Chirag means

Chirag means “lamp, light”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Chirag is used in Hindi, Marathi and Gujarati.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Borrowed from Persian چراغ (čirāġ, čarāġ, “lamp, lightsource”).

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Chirag (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Chirag is used in English.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Chirag is pronounced /t͡ʃɪˈɾɑːɣ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 667 boys were recorded with the name Chirag between 1973 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 33 in 1985; its best national rank was #1,801 in 1985.

How common is Chirag?

Chirag had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 552,000
6 of 3,314,783 births
Among boys only
1 in 285,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
382,940 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Chirag sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2023 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 382,940 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Chirag. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Chirags were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Chirag was born before 1990 — so the typical Chirag is around 35 today.

Median birth year
1990
About 35 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
36.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
25.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
667
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 36.0% of all recorded uses (240).

Is Chirag 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 1985 (33)
Years since peak
40
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,801
1985

Spellings of Chirag

Chirag is not the most common spelling — Hiram is, with 95.6% against Chirag's 4.4%.

  • Hiram95.6%14,456
  • Chirag4.4%667

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 Chirag is used

Across 1910–2025, Chirag was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 490,245 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Illinois1 in —
  4. 4New York1 in —
  5. 5Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Chirag has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Chirag around the world

Where Chirag 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
    1996–2024
    #5,120
    in 2024
  • Canada
    1994–2012
    #2,715
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Chirag by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,801
1985
Peak year
1985
33 that year
First recorded
1973
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
667
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Chirag

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

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Sibling names for Chirag

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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