Meaning not yet researched.
Chaya: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 499 in 2025. Its best rank was #588 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. Every baby recorded as Chaya in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#588 for US girls in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Chaya: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 499 girls in 2025. Peak: #588 in 2025 · most girls in one year: 504 (2024).
In 2025, 499 US girls were named Chaya, making it the 588th most common girls’ name of the year, up 11 places from #599 in 2024. That is 5 fewer than the 504 girls named Chaya in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #588, reached in this year, 2025. The most girls given the name in a single year was 504, in 2024. For comparison, it was #743 in 2015 and #3,710 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Chaya in 79 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1947 with 9 babies. In all, 15,684 US babies have been given the name, 99.9% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 4,122 babies named Chaya.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 4,634 US girls were named Chaya; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 504. In 2025 that was about 1 in 3,221 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Chaya ranked highest in New York in 2025, at #42 for girls there. It was in the top 100 in 2 states (counting DC). Rarer spellings such as Chai, Chau and Chay are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Chai (647), Chau (496), Chay (429), Chae (323), Chao (320), Cha (290), Khaya (249), Chayah (112), Khaia (101), Chaia (60), Chaye (50), Khaiya (27), and more.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Chaya in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 42 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 271 | #42 | #70 |
| New Jersey | 145 | #45 | #111 |
| Maryland | 6 | #750 | #653 |
| Pennsylvania | 12 | #771 | — |
| Ohio | 9 | #974 | — |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,255 | — |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,279 | — |
| Florida | 10 | #1,346 | #1,140 |
| California | 13 | #1,667 | #2,064 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 499 | #588 | — | — |
| 2024 | 504 | #599 | — | — |
| 2023 | 494 | #602 | — | — |
| 2022 | 503 | #595 | — | — |
| 2021 | 461 | #646 | — | — |
| 2020 | 434 | #662 | — | — |
| 2019 | 443 | #660 | — | — |
| 2018 | 469 | #638 | — | — |
| 2017 | 422 | #691 | — | — |
| 2016 | 405 | #707 | — | — |
| 2015 | 379 | #743 | — | — |
| 2014 | 416 | #681 | — | — |
| 2013 | 405 | #698 | — | — |
| 2012 | 406 | #692 | — | — |
| 2011 | 393 | #709 | — | — |
| 2010 | 384 | #730 | — | — |
| 2009 | 402 | #721 | — | — |
| 2008 | 403 | #740 | — | — |
| 2007 | 409 | #715 | — | — |
| 2006 | 369 | #751 | — | — |
| 2005 | 373 | #726 | — | — |
| 2004 | 349 | #752 | — | — |
| 2003 | 321 | #771 | — | — |
| 2002 | 357 | #701 | — | — |
| 2001 | 290 | #810 | — | — |
| 2000 | 295 | #774 | — | — |
| 1999 | 259 | #832 | — | — |
| 1998 | 213 | #963 | — | — |
| 1997 | 221 | #908 | — | — |
| 1996 | 210 | #928 | — | — |
| 1995 | 217 | #877 | — | — |
| 1994 | 205 | #922 | — | — |
| 1993 | 229 | #848 | — | — |
| 1992 | 202 | #953 | — | — |
| 1991 | 238 | #843 | — | — |
| 1990 | 215 | #895 | — | — |
| 1989 | 232 | #817 | 5 | #8,085 |
| 1988 | 213 | #845 | — | — |
| 1987 | 144 | #1,064 | — | — |
| 1986 | 142 | #1,059 | — | — |
| 1985 | 130 | #1,110 | — | — |
| 1984 | 151 | #957 | — | — |
| 1983 | 147 | #988 | — | — |
| 1982 | 147 | #1,006 | — | — |
| 1981 | 166 | #902 | 5 | #6,435 |
| 1980 | 114 | #1,178 | — | — |
| 1979 | 116 | #1,145 | — | — |
| 1978 | 91 | #1,316 | — | — |
| 1977 | 97 | #1,241 | — | — |
| 1976 | 81 | #1,332 | — | — |
| 1975 | 103 | #1,129 | — | — |
| 1974 | 83 | #1,286 | — | — |
| 1973 | 57 | #1,607 | — | — |
| 1972 | 65 | #1,473 | — | — |
| 1971 | 49 | #1,808 | — | — |
| 1970 | 41 | #2,022 | — | — |
| 1969 | 36 | #2,109 | — | — |
| 1968 | 34 | #2,061 | — | — |
| 1967 | 35 | #1,981 | — | — |
| 1966 | 17 | #3,055 | — | — |
| 1965 | 22 | #2,612 | — | — |
| 1964 | 23 | #2,610 | — | — |
| 1963 | 34 | #2,023 | — | — |
| 1962 | 35 | #1,950 | — | — |
| 1961 | 27 | #2,305 | — | — |
| 1960 | 16 | #3,106 | — | — |
| 1959 | 31 | #2,025 | — | — |
| 1958 | 26 | #2,218 | — | — |
| 1957 | 19 | #2,667 | — | — |
| 1956 | 28 | #2,061 | — | — |
| 1955 | 27 | #2,071 | — | — |
| 1954 | 21 | #2,390 | — | — |
| 1953 | 18 | #2,528 | — | — |
| 1952 | 17 | #2,592 | — | — |
| 1951 | 11 | #3,312 | — | — |
| 1950 | 9 | #3,710 | — | — |
| 1949 | 10 | #3,415 | — | — |
| 1948 | 6 | #4,751 | — | — |
| 1947 | 9 | #3,750 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).