How rare is the name Chyna?

4,498 people in the United States have the first name Chyna, about 1 in 67,148. It ranks #4,228 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census, tied with 1 other.

first name

CHYNA

#4,228

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
4,498
About
1 in 67,148
This common or more
83.7%
Who bears it

Of the 4,498 people named Chyna, 71.7% reported their origin as Black, 12.8% as White and 6.7% as two or more races. Virtually all are female (99.7%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Chyna peaked in 1999, when 573 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19792025
Peak year
1999
Births that year
573
In 2025*
27 ▼95%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 5,805 babies have been given the name since 1979. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Chyna by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1990s, when it ranked #1,619. The largest share of babies named Chyna, 63.9%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.

1970s#21,07710
1980s#5,556246
1990s#1,6192,168
2000s#2,1121,918
2010s#3,0511,258
2020s#7,275205
Generation X 1965–800.4%
Millennials 1981–9619.6%
Generation Z 1997–1263.9%
2013 and later16.1%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Chyna is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Chyna has been most common in Georgia (3.2×), Mississippi (2.5×), and North Carolina (2.3×), and least common in Missouri (0.4×).

4,263 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Exactly as common as Chyna

1 other first name also has 4,498 people.

#4,228 Deion · 4,498

Either side of Chyna

#4,226 Shlomo · 4,503#4,227 Garett · 4,501#4,228 Deion · 4,498#4,230 Amador · 4,496

Spelled almost the same

8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Chyna, most common first.

#2,476 Chana · 9,939#4,614 China · 3,979#7,949 Chynna · 1,856#11,985 Chona · 1,053#36,303 Chena · 219#37,708 Chayna · 206#42,079 Cheyna · 172#47,349 Chynah · 138

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