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Chika

Girl · Japanese

Chika is a girls' name of Japanese origin. In 2025 it ranked 4,276th for girls in the UK (5 babies).

What does Chika mean?

Japanese

A female given name from Japanese.

From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Is Chika a girl's or a boy's name?

Chika is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Chika in the UK?

Rank in 2025
#4,276among girls
Babies in 2025
5about 1 in 56,000 girls
Five-year trend
Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 5 girls in the UK were named Chika, making it the 4,276th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,734th. Its busiest year was 2004, with 5 girls.

2025 had more girls named Chika than any year since 2011.

Half of all the girls named Chika in the UK since 1996 were born between 2004 and 2014. It was already well used in 1996, when the records begin, so earlier girls aren't counted.

Among girls in 2025, it was 4,200th in England and Wales.

1996Busiest: 5 in 20042025
Chika in the UK, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20255#4,276
20243#5,966
20230–
20220–
20210–
20203#5,734
20190–
20180–
20170–
20163#6,009
20151#7,629
20143#5,920
20134#4,953
20123#6,108
20115#4,244
20103#5,938
20094#4,795
20084#4,742
20070–
20060–
20050–
20045#3,356
20033#4,560
20023#4,284
20014#3,427
20000–
19990–
19980–
19970–
19964#3,289

How popular is Chika in the US?

No girls in the US were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 1992, with 17 girls. It first appears in the records in 1976.

Half of all the girls named Chika in the US since 1880 were born between 1988 and 2003, the years shaded on the chart below.

1976Busiest: 17 in 19922022
Chika in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20227#12,237
20210–
20200–
20195#15,532
20180–
20170–
20160–
20150–
20148#11,925
20137#13,145
20120–
20117#13,339
20106#14,953
20097#13,698
20087#13,827
20075#17,630
20066#15,147
20056#14,495
200410#9,887
20039#10,420
20029#10,240
200113#7,717
200017#6,202
199912#7,710
199815#6,355
199712#7,278
19966#11,801
199511#7,509
199410#8,116
199313#6,615
199217#5,477
19919#8,580
199014#6,125
198910#7,443
19887#9,239
19875#11,320
198610#6,609
19856#9,304
198411#5,898
198311#5,822
19829#6,886
19817#8,126
19805#10,390
19799#6,694
19780–
19777#7,565
19765#9,282

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