Çhika
surname · Latin script
Çhika is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country, where it is the 56th most common given name.
- NGNigeria≈1 in 1.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 170K
- SESweden1 in 186K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 231 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈170,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Nigeria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Chika in NG Nigeria, US United States, GB United Kingdom and 5 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Cited for this meaning 2
- The African book of names
- The book of African names
Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Çhika counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | #56 | ≈170,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | listed | Chika | 123 |
| US United States | — | 1,232 | 1 in 270K | 1K | Chika | 231 |
| IN India | — | ≈690 est. | ≈1 in 2.1M | 107 | Chika | 13 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 173K | listed | Chika | 104 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 208K | — | Chika | 19 |
| CL Chile | — | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 169K | — | Chika | 9 |
| HK Hong Kong | — | ≈76 est. | ≈1 in 99K | — | Chika | 5 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈48 est. | ≈1 in 126K | — | Chika | 13 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- Which countries have the most people named Çhika?
- Mondonomo estimates about 170 thousand people named Çhika in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled chika. After it come United States, India, United Kingdom and South Africa; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Çhika?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,232 people named Çhika in 2020, about 1 in 270 thousand residents.
- How common is Çhika compared with other names?
- In Nigeria, Çhika is the 56th most common given name of 138,191 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Çhika?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C3%A7hikaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Çhika” — the 56th most common given name in Nigeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.