Chisom
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈtʃɪsəm/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Chisom is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country, where it is the 65th most common given name. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): WR Yorks and ER Yorks. contraction of Chisholm . Further information: This is one of the many variants that are rare in Britain but thriving in the USA.
- NGNigeria≈1 in 2.9K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 366K
- ISIceland1 in 88K
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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 201 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈74,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
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:
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(measured from records)
Main GB Location (1881): WR Yorks and ER Yorks. contraction of Chisholm . Further information: This is one of the many variants that are rare in Britain but thriving in the USA.
Sources 1
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Where in the world(measured from records)
Chisom 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 | #65 | ≈74,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.9K | listed | Chisom | 113 |
| US United States | — | 908 | 1 in 366K | 707 | Chisom | 201 |
| CN China | — | ≈480 est. | ≈1 in 2.9M | — | Chisom | 8 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 480K | — | Chisom | 81 |
| SE Sweden | — | 85 | 1 in 120K | 85 | — | 3 |
| FI Finland | — | 22 | 1 in 253K | 39 | — | — |
| IS Iceland | — | 4 | 1 in 88K | 4 | — | — |
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 masakhane register; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Cynthia UmezulikeNGnot in their usual nameNigerian human rights lawyer and activist
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 31 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 616 | #13,345 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 292 | #13,345 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 85 | #9,557 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 39 | #8,388 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2015 | 30 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 27 | #14,280 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2016 | 27 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2010 | 24 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2004 | 24 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2017 | 22 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2014 | 22 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2013 | 22 | — |
Reference works 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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 Chisom mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): WR Yorks and ER Yorks. contraction of Chisholm . Further information: This is one of the many variants that are rare in Britain but thriving in the USA. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
- How do you pronounce Chisom?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈtʃɪsəm/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Chisom a male or female name?
- Chisom 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 Chisom have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 74 thousand people named Chisom in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled chisom.
- How common is the name Chisom?
- In the United States, the national register counted 908 people named Chisom in 2020, about 1 in 366 thousand residents.
- How common is Chisom compared with other names?
- In Nigeria, Chisom is the 65th most common given name of 138,191 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Chisom?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/chisomThe 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, “Chisom” — the 65th most common given name in Nigeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.