Chika
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Rōmaji transcription of ちか
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/tʃikə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Chika is a given name 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 1.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 186K
- USUnited States1 in 270K
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)
- Sources
- 231 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈140,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Nigeria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
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(measured from records)
Chika 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 | ≈140,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | listed | Chika | 123 |
| CN China | — | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 646K | — | Chika | 5 |
| US United States | — | 1,232 | 1 in 270K | 1K | Chika | 231 |
| TW Taiwan | — | ≈460 est. | ≈1 in 51K | — | Chika | 10 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 186K | listed | Chika | 104 |
| CL Chile | — | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 148K | — | Chika | 9 |
| HK Hong Kong | — | ≈79 est. | ≈1 in 92K | — | Chika | 5 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈67 est. | ≈1 in 92K | — | 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: the african-book-names-hodari-2003 register; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the gb-nisra-baby-names-ni register. 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Chika Kurodab. 1884JPJapanese chemist
- Chika Sakamotob. 1959JPJapanese voice actress
- Chika Ōtsukab. 1972JPJapanese actor and seiyū
- Chika Uminob. 1980JPJapanese mangaka
- Chika Ōkubob. 1980JPJapanese actor and seiyū
- Chika Fujimurab. 1981JPJapanese actress and voice actress
- Chika Uemurab. 1985JPJapanese actress and novelist
- Chika Anzaib. 1990JPJapanese voice actress
- Chika Arakawab. 1999JPJapanese actress and model
- Chika HorikawaJPJapanese voice actress
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 43 sources across 24 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1K | #10,692 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 198 | #10,692 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2000 | 17 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1992 | 17 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1998 | 15 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1990 | 14 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2001 | 13 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2022 | 7 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2004 | 6 | — |
| GB United Kingdom | NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present) | 2002 | — | — |
| NG Nigeria | The African Book of Names (Hodari, 2003) | — | — | — |
| NG Nigeria | naija-faker — Nigerian Given Names by Ethnicity (Hausa/Igbo/Yoruba) | — | — | — |
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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Chika mean, and where does it come from?
- Rōmaji transcription of ちか Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Chika?
- A machine transcription gives /tʃikə/ (IPA) for English.
- 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.
- In which country does Chika have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 138 thousand people named Chika in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled chika.
- How common is the name Chika?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,232 people named Chika in 2020, about 1 in 270 thousand residents.
- How common is Chika compared with other names?
- In Nigeria, Chika is the 56th most common given name of 138,191 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Chika?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/chikaThe 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, “Chika” — the 56th most common given name in Nigeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.