Chimela
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Nigerian: name borne by Chimel Anaba; used in Nigeria (African Names)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: Guyana, 2025
Chimela is a male given name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Zambia.
- Zambia (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 2 (measured from records)
no count published
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: community-sourced
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)Nigerian: name borne by Chimel Anaba; used in Nigeria
Cited for this meaning 1
- African Names
Where in the world
(measured from records)Chimela counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
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: ECZ 2021 Councillor Elections — candidate results; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; the african-book-names-hodari-2003 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)Chimela 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.
Thanks to God.
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.
Evidence
(measured from records)4 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Chimela mean, and where does it come from?
- Nigerian: name borne by Chimel Anaba; used in Nigeria Recorded by African Names.
- Is Chimela a male or female name?
- Chimela 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 Chimela have the most bearers?
- Chimela is most frequently recorded in Zambia.
What do you want to know about Chimela?
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/chimelaThe 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, “Chimela” — ranked 44th in Zambia (ECZ 2021 Councillor Elections). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.