Meaning not yet researched.
Chole: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 35 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,091 in 2009.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,091 in 2009; #4,088 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Chole in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,088 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2009, at #2,091.
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Chole: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 35 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,091 in 2009 · most girls in one year: 97 (2009).
In 2025, 35 US girls were named Chole, making it the 4,088th most common girls’ name of the year, down 499 places from #3,589 in 2024. That is 8 fewer than the 43 girls named Chole in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,091, reached in 2009. That year also had the most girls given the name: 97. For comparison, it was #3,036 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Chole in 44 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1980 with 5 babies. In all, 2,020 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 767 babies named Chole.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 455 US girls were named Chole; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 64. In 2025 that was about 1 in 45,922 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Khole (868 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Khol and Chol 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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Khol (54), Chol (27).
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 Chole in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 35 | #4,088 | — | — |
| 2024 | 43 | #3,589 | — | — |
| 2023 | 43 | #3,603 | — | — |
| 2022 | 43 | #3,615 | — | — |
| 2021 | 46 | #3,401 | — | — |
| 2020 | 53 | #3,031 | — | — |
| 2019 | 40 | #3,733 | — | — |
| 2018 | 64 | #2,695 | — | — |
| 2017 | 44 | #3,497 | — | — |
| 2016 | 44 | #3,535 | — | — |
| 2015 | 56 | #3,036 | — | — |
| 2014 | 77 | #2,378 | — | — |
| 2013 | 54 | #3,050 | — | — |
| 2012 | 67 | #2,661 | — | — |
| 2011 | 69 | #2,594 | — | — |
| 2010 | 77 | #2,432 | — | — |
| 2009 | 97 | #2,091 | — | — |
| 2008 | 93 | #2,160 | — | — |
| 2007 | 75 | #2,492 | — | — |
| 2006 | 66 | #2,710 | — | — |
| 2005 | 67 | #2,558 | — | — |
| 2004 | 69 | #2,451 | — | — |
| 2003 | 84 | #2,094 | — | — |
| 2002 | 75 | #2,205 | — | — |
| 2001 | 65 | #2,414 | — | — |
| 2000 | 76 | #2,126 | — | — |
| 1999 | 38 | #3,331 | — | — |
| 1998 | 36 | #3,362 | — | — |
| 1997 | 23 | #4,540 | — | — |
| 1996 | 34 | #3,378 | — | — |
| 1995 | 25 | #4,118 | — | — |
| 1994 | 48 | #2,597 | — | — |
| 1993 | 20 | #4,862 | — | — |
| 1992 | 34 | #3,281 | — | — |
| 1991 | 37 | #3,045 | — | — |
| 1990 | 23 | #4,267 | — | — |
| 1989 | 22 | #4,269 | — | — |
| 1988 | 12 | #6,349 | — | — |
| 1987 | 15 | #5,116 | — | — |
| 1986 | 8 | #7,890 | — | — |
| 1985 | 6 | #9,521 | — | — |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,331 | — | — |
| 1981 | 5 | #10,703 | — | — |
| 1980 | 5 | #10,675 | — | — |
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).