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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Chi

Recorded for both sexesMillennial

2025 rank

#6,596

down −142 places

2025 births

17

down −1 births

All-time births

763

2% of them in 2025

More common than

88%

of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
2023
32 births
Best rank
#2,516
in 1973
First recorded
1970
#8,197 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1996
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
51 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 202332#4,384Peak
  2. 197329#2,516
  3. 197428#2,628
  4. 198227#3,189
  5. 198426#3,244

Rank over time

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

Best rank #2,516 in 1973 · peak births 32 in 2023

Boys and girls

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

● 42% boys■ 58% girls

563 boys · 763 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 Chi has ranked, decade by decade

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