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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Chaka

Recorded for both sexesGen X

2025 rank

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not recorded in 2025

2025 births

—

All-time births

841

peak year 1976

More common than

88%

of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1976
147 births
Best rank
#899
in 1976
First recorded
1974
#4,060 that year
Last recorded
1991
no later published record
Average birth year
1979
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
18 of 146
unbroken

Top five years

  1. 1976147#899Peak
  2. 1975120#1,008
  3. 197787#1,326
  4. 197880#1,436
  5. 197970#1,609

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #899 in 1976 · peak births 147 in 1976

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 24% boys■ 76% girls

262 boys · 841 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Chaka has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.