Chijioke
given name · Latin script
Meaning: "Chi" owns gifts
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/tʃiʒioʊk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Chijioke is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country.
- NGNigeria≈1 in 2.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 295K
- USUnited States1 in 783K
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
- 195 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈93,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Nigeria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
"Chi" owns gifts
Sources 1
- The book of African names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Chijioke 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 | #334 | ≈93,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | listed | Chijioke | 113 |
| US United States | — | 425 | 1 in 783K | 394 | Chijioke | 195 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 295K | — | Chijioke | 80 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 300K | — | Chijioke | 15 |
| MT Malta | #195 | ≈62 est. | ≈1 in 7.4K | — | Chijioke | 2 |
| IS Iceland | — | 1 | 1 in 351K | 1 | — | — |
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; 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Chijioke is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
God given talent.
as a nameThe African book of names
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)
- Chijioke Nwakodob. 1961NGNigerian politician
- Chijioke Amu-Nnadib. 1962NGNigerian writer
- Oguchi Onyewub. 1982USnot in their usual nameAmerican soccer player
- Chijioke Onyenegechab. 1983USPlayer of American and Canadian football
- Chijioke Ejiogub. 1984NGfootballer
- Chijioke Akunetob. 1997NGNigerian football player
- Dennis Adeniranb. 1999GBnot in their usual nameEnglish association football player
- Vince Osujib. 2006NGnot in their usual nameNigerian association football player
- Chijioke Asomughafilm producer
- Chijioke NwosuNGNigerian author and a researcher
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 20 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 Chijioke mean, and where does it come from?
- "Chi" owns gifts Recorded by The book of African names.
- How do you pronounce Chijioke?
- A machine transcription gives /tʃiʒioʊk/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Chijioke a male or female name?
- Chijioke is a male 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 Chijioke have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 93 thousand people named Chijioke in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled chijioke.
- How common is the name Chijioke?
- In the United States, the national register counted 425 people named Chijioke in 2020, about 1 in 783 thousand residents.
- How common is Chijioke compared with other names?
- In Nigeria, Chijioke is the 334th most common given name of 138,191 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Chijioke?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/chijiokeThe 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, “Chijioke” — the 334th most common given name in Nigeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.