Chole
#4,087 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Chole has been given to 2,020 babies in the U.S. since 1980. In 2025 it ranked #4,087 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2009, with 97 recorded.
Babies named Chole, 2025
1 in 94,700
Chole 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Chole?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 94,700
- 35 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 45,900
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #4,087
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 65,655 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Chole sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 65,655 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Chole. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Choles were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Chole was born before 2008 — so the typical Chole is around 17 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 38.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 76.5%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 2,020
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 38.0% of all recorded uses (767).
Is Chole 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
- −498
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −1,056
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −1,051
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.63×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 36.1%
- Peak was 2009 (97)
- Years since peak
- 16
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 17.1% average annual change
Spellings of Chole
Chole is not the most common spelling — Chloe is, with 46.5% against Chole's 0.37%.
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 Chole is used
Across 2016–2025, Chole was most concentrated in South Carolina — about 1 in 14,286 girls, against 1 in 68,594 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1South Carolina1 in 14,286
- 2Georgia1 in 20,000
- 3New York1 in 33,333
- 4Florida1 in 50,000
- 5North Carolina1 in 100,000
- 6Ohio1 in 100,000
- 7Pennsylvania1 in 100,000
- 8California1 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.
Chole around the world
Where Chole 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 & Wales1997–2018#5,666in 2018
- Northern Ireland2001–2001#343in 2001
- South Australia2009–2009#818in 2009
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Chole by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Chole
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Chole
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Chole, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Chole
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.