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Chyna

#4,901 in 2025Girls' name

Possibly the Chinese; China, through China

Chyna has been given to 5,805 babies in the U.S. since 1979. In 2025 it ranked #4,901 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1999, with 573 recorded.

Babies named Chyna, 2025

1 in 123,000

Chyna over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Chyna: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly the Chinese; China, through China

coinages

What Chyna means

Chyna belongs to the name family reached through Chyna → China. Its meaning is “the Chinese; China”.

Origin, language, and formation

Chyna is used in English. Its origins include coinages.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include China.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,805 girls were recorded with the name Chyna between 1979 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 573 in 1999; its best national rank was #463 in 1999.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,630 in 2020 to #4,901 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,719 in 2015 to #4,901 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Chyna?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 123,000
27 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 59,500
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#4,901
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
85,108 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Chyna 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 85,108 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Chyna. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Chynas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Chyna was born before 2000 — so the typical Chyna is around 25 today.

Median birth year
2000
About 25 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
37.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
49.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
5,805
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 37.3% of all recorded uses (2,168).

Is Chyna 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
+1,552
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,271
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−3,182
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.22×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
4.7%
Peak was 1999 (573)
Years since peak
26
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#463
1999

Spellings of Chyna

Chyna is not the most common spelling — Shana is, with 13.1% against Chyna's 2.6%.

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 Chyna is used

Across 2016–2025, Chyna was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 4,167 girls, against 1 in 27,066 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in 100,000).

124 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Mississippi1 in 4,167
  2. 2South Carolina1 in 7,692
  3. 3Louisiana1 in 12,500
  4. 4Georgia1 in 14,286
  5. 5Tennessee1 in 20,000
  6. 6North Carolina1 in 25,000
  7. 7Texas1 in 33,333
  8. 8Florida1 in 50,000

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.

Chyna around the world

Where Chyna 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
    #4,867
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1996–2000
    #1,996
    in 2000
  • South Australia
    1999–2006
    #782
    in 2006

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

Chyna by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#4,901
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,271
Best rank ever
#463
1999
Peak year
1999
573 that year
First recorded
1979
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,805
Count in 2025
27

Names similar to Chyna

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

JaynaLaynaAlynaRaynaElaynaDaynaLeynaZaynaReynaChyannChylaAleynaChynnaShaynaChyanneLynaAlaynaBrynaKarynaChyrlMalaynaChyenneEleynaTayna

Names with a curve like Chyna

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

DasiaCaitlynnSydniReillySydnieLexusLexisDestiniTyannaDaishaShianneOdalys

Sibling names for Chyna

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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