Chaya
#587 for girls in 2025, 499 births · Last seen for boys in 1989 at #7,905
Given to girls 99.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2025 · 499 births
- Debut · girls
- 9 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 15,674since 1947
Chaya over time
Rank among girls' names. Chaya has never cracked the top 500 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #587 | 499 | — | |
| 2024 | #599 | 504 | — | |
| 2023 | #602 | 494 | — | |
| 2022 | #595 | 503 | — | |
| 2021 | #645 | 461 | — | |
| 2020 | #662 | 434 | — | |
| 2019 | #660 | 443 | — | |
| 2018 | #638 | 469 | — | |
| 2017 | #691 | 422 | — | |
| 2016 | #707 | 405 | — | |
| 2015 | #743 | 379 | — | |
| 2014 | #681 | 416 | — | |
| 2013 | #698 | 405 | — | |
| 2012 | #692 | 406 | — | |
| 2011 | #708 | 393 | — | |
| 2010 | #729 | 384 | — | |
| 2009 | #720 | 402 | — | |
| 2008 | #740 | 403 | — | |
| 2007 | #715 | 409 | — | |
| 2006 | #751 | 369 | — | |
| 2005 | #726 | 373 | — | |
| 2004 | #751 | 349 | — | |
| 2003 | #771 | 321 | — | |
| 2002 | #701 | 357 | — | |
| 2001 | #810 | 290 | — | |
| 2000 | #774 | 295 | — | |
| 1999 | #831 | 259 | — | |
| 1998 | #963 | 213 | — | |
| 1997 | #907 | 221 | — | |
| 1996 | #928 | 210 | — | |
| 1995 | #877 | 217 | — | |
| 1994 | #921 | 205 | — | |
| 1993 | #848 | 229 | — | |
| 1992 | #952 | 202 | — | |
| 1991 | #843 | 238 | — | |
| 1990 | #895 | 215 | — | |
| 1989 | #816 | 232 | #7,905 | 5 |
| 1988 | #844 | 213 | — | |
| 1987 | #1,064 | 144 | — | |
| 1986 | #1,057 | 142 | — | |
| 1985 | #1,109 | 130 | — | |
| 1984 | #957 | 151 | — | |
| 1983 | #988 | 147 | — | |
| 1982 | #1,005 | 147 | — | |
| 1981 | #901 | 166 | #6,262 | 5 |
| 1980 | #1,176 | 114 | — | |
| 1979 | #1,144 | 116 | — | |
| 1978 | #1,314 | 91 | — | |
| 1977 | #1,240 | 97 | — | |
| 1976 | #1,330 | 81 | — | |
| 1975 | #1,127 | 103 | — | |
| 1974 | #1,284 | 83 | — | |
| 1973 | #1,607 | 57 | — | |
| 1972 | #1,473 | 65 | — | |
| 1971 | #1,805 | 49 | — | |
| 1970 | #2,017 | 41 | — | |
| 1969 | #2,102 | 36 | — | |
| 1968 | #2,056 | 34 | — | |
| 1967 | #1,980 | 35 | — | |
| 1966 | #3,040 | 17 | — | |
| 1965 | #2,605 | 22 | — | |
| 1964 | #2,600 | 23 | — | |
| 1963 | #2,015 | 34 | — | |
| 1962 | #1,947 | 35 | — | |
| 1961 | #2,299 | 27 | — | |
| 1960 | #3,095 | 16 | — | |
| 1959 | #2,021 | 31 | — | |
| 1958 | #2,209 | 26 | — | |
| 1957 | #2,651 | 19 | — | |
| 1956 | #2,058 | 28 | — | |
| 1955 | #2,063 | 27 | — | |
| 1954 | #2,378 | 21 | — | |
| 1953 | #2,516 | 18 | — | |
| 1952 | #2,581 | 17 | — | |
| 1951 | #3,284 | 11 | — | |
| 1950 | #3,662 | 9 | — | |
| 1949 | #3,393 | 10 | — | |
| 1948 | #4,651 | 6 | — | |
| 1947 | #3,706 | 9 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Chaya! It came in at #3,706, and was given to 9 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1947–1948, when fewer than 10 girls a year got the name.
Where Chaya is popular in 1978
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New York#272 · 1 in 1,561
- New Jersey#803 · 1 in 7,254
- Illinois#1,232 · 1 in 14,181
- California#1,691 · 1 in 21,904
Best ever in a state: #42 in New York, 2025.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New York | #272 | 63 | 1 in 1,561 |
| New Jersey | #803 | 5 | 1 in 7,254 |
| Illinois | #1,232 | 5 | 1 in 14,181 |
| California | #1,691 | 7 | 1 in 21,904 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Chaya
- 12 spots since 2024 (#599 → #587)
- 75 spots since 2020 (#662 → #587)
- 156 spots since 2015 (#743 → #587)
- Biggest jump: 275 spots in 1981 (#1,176 → #901)
- Biggest drop: 152 spots in 1985 (#957 → #1,109)
- Debuted 1947
- Peaked 2025 at #587 (499 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 41 yrs · run 1988–2025
- Highest: 1 in 3,215 girls born in 2024 were named Chaya (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 3,221 girls born in 2025 (0.03%)
- Its best rank, #587 in 2025, was only 1 in 3,221 (0.03%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 26.3% of all girls named Chaya (4,122) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 25 | #3,393 (1949) | #3,917 |
| 1950s | 207 | #2,021 (1959) | #2,542 |
| 1960s | 279 | #1,947 (1962) | #2,374 |
| 1970s | 783 | #1,127 (1975) | #1,434 |
| 1980s | 1,586 | #816 (1989) | #992 |
| 1990s | 2,209 | #831 (1999) | #897 |
| 2000s | 3,568 | #701 (2002) | #746 |
| 2010s | 4,122 | #638 (2018) | #695 |
| 2020s | 2,895 | #587 (2025) | #615 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Chaya in 1978
Top girls' names in 1978
More about 1978
girls
1,531,859 girls got a published name in 1978; 1 in 16,834 of them was named Chaya, which outranked 88.5% of the 11,475 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,307Milissa92
- #1,307Myesha92
- #1,307Taisha92
- #1,314Chaya91
- #1,314Bessie91
- #1,314Caron91
- #1,314Dacia91
- #1,332Gia90
- #1,332Lakia90
- #1,332Latoshia90
Tied with 17 names at #1,314; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.