Chico

Where Chico comes from

The dictionaries list Chico as a given name — a diminutive of the male given name Francisco, from Portuguese — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1922
    First appearance
    #4,307 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1977
    Peak, #1,177
    56 babies named Chico — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1981
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #2,338.
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the male given name Francisco, from Portuguese.
Namesakes

We look up famous namesakes for names that have made the top 1,000. Chico hasn't yet.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.