Chika

given name · English · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Chika is a given name, most frequently recorded in Nigeria, where it is the 93rd most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Japanese, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Rōmaji transcription of ちか.

rarermore common
  • NGNigeria1 in 1.2K◐
  • USUnited States1 in 322K
  • ZASouth Africa1 in 174K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈1.1K ●

across 6 countries

Sources
204 ●

109K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 186K ◐

Sweden

Meaning & origin●

Rōmaji transcription of ちか

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Chika is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NG Nigeria#9362,11998K rec.—listedChika120
US United States—1,0347.4K rec.1 in 322K1KChika204
GB United Kingdom—913496 rec.—listedChika78
AU Australia—491442 rec.——Chika52
MX Mexico—319311 rec.——Chika12
DE Germany—213225 rec.—1Chika52
ZA South Africa—195287 rec.——Chika20
CA Canada—148159 rec.—1Chika40
CO Colombia—130284 rec.——Chika10
BR Brazil—12429 rec.—72Chika18
PH Philippines—10458 rec.——Chika13
MY Malaysia—7363 rec.——Chika13

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English48K39%
  • Japanese38K31%
  • Swahili22K18%
  • Indonesian4.6K4%
  • Hindi1.2K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English47,65539%
Japanese38,28531%
Swahili22,41918%
Indonesian4,6184%
Hindi1,2281%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Chika is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Japanese given name47K records spelled Chika3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Japan, Nigeria, United States, Kyrgyzstan

    Also written Chi-Ka, Čhi-Ka

  • Indonesian given name6.1K records spelled Chika2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Nigeria, United States, Malaysia

    Also written 'Chika

  • Hindi given name2.2K records spelled Chika5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Nigeria, India, United States, United Kingdom

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Chíkà, Chîkà, Chìkã

  • French given name879 records spelled Chika14 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Nigeria, United States, Côte d’Ivoire

    Also written Chikà, Çhíkà, Chìka, Chìkå, Çhîkà

  • Spanish surname591 records spelled Chika73 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ecuador, Spain, Colombia, El Salvador

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Ukrainian

    Also written Chica, Чика, Чіка, Тика, Tchika

  • Thai given name404 records spelled Chika11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Nigeria, Thailand, United States, Laos

    Languages: Thai, Lao

    Also written Chuka, Shiga, ชิกะ, ชกะ, ชูกะ

53 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Chika is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • "Chi" is supreme

    as a nameThe book of African names

  • God is great.

    as a nameThe African book of names

  • In Filipino, alternative spelling of tsika

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In grt, to bite

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

051015201980199020002010202017 · 1992

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Chika in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1976–2022
Yearrecords
19765
19777
19799
19805
19817
19829
198311
198411
19856
198610
19875
19887
198910
199014
19919
199217
199313
199410
199511
19966
199712
199815
199912
200017
200113
20029
20039
200410
20056
20066
20075
20087
20097
20106
20117
20137
20148
20195
20227

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 39 years between 1976–2022. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1850190019502000Chika Kuroda, b. 1884Chika Sakamoto, b. 1959Chika Ōtsuka, b. 1972Chika Umino, b. 1980Chika Ōkubo, b. 1980Chika Fujimura, b. 1981Chika Uemura, b. 1985Chika Anzai, b. 1990Chika Arakawa, b. 1999

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 43 sources across 24 countries.

Official registers attesting Chika
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20201K#10,692
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—204#3,297
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020198#10,692
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020122#140,525
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—107#27,239
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010102#158,432
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—72#80,790
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—55#12,790
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—38#11,893
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—35#11,958
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)200017—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)199217—

Reference works 4

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 173 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Chika?
We estimate roughly 1.1 thousand people bear Chika (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.
In which country does Chika have the most bearers?
Chika is most frequently recorded in Nigeria, where it is most often spelled chika.
How common is Chika compared with other names?
In Nigeria, Chika is the 93rd most common given name of 146,224 given names recorded there.
Is Chika a male or female name?
Chika is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Chika mean?
Recorded meaning: Rōmaji transcription of ちか
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Chika” — the 93rd most common given name in Nigeria. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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