Chinonso
given name · Latin script
Used for both men and women· registers list it under both sexes; no split published
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 14 countries · latest register: Þjóðskrá Íslands, 2026
/tʃɪnɑnsoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Chinonso is a given name used for both men and women, 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)
- USUnited States1 in 1.1M
- ISIceland1 in 175K
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)
- Record sources
- 143 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈93,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
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)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.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Chinonso 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 | #358 | ≈93,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | listed | Chinonso | 106 |
| US United States | — | 295 | 1 in 1.1M | 196 | Chinonso | 143 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 368K | — | Chinonso | 10 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈83 est. | ≈1 in 790K | listed | Chinonso | 64 |
| SE Sweden | — | 34 | 1 in 300K | 34 | — | 2 |
| IS Iceland | — | 2 | 1 in 175K | 2 | — | — |
| GY Guyana | — | 1 | 1 in 750K | 1 | — | 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: the ng-naijafaker register; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the gb-nisra-baby-names-ni register; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)- Chinonso Young Umesiobib. 1987NGsinger, actress and stylist
- Chinonso Okonkwob. 1990NGNigerian association football player
- Ujoumunna Justice Chinonsob. 1991NGLibrarian and researcher and assistant lecturer
- Chinonso Ukahb. 1995NGNigerian comedian, influencer and actress
- Rebecca Chinonso Arinolab. 1996NGmusician
- Emmanuel Nworieb. 1997NGnot in their usual nameNigerian amateur wrestler
- Chinonso Emekab. 2001NGNigerian association football player
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)20 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 196 | #29,846 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 99 | #29,846 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 34 | #17,569 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2012 | 12 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2017 | 11 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2009 | 8 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2018 | 7 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2006 | 7 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2001 | 7 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2024 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2019 | 6 | — |
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
- How do you pronounce Chinonso?
- A machine transcription gives /tʃɪnɑnsoʊ/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Chinonso a male or female name?
- Chinonso is used for both men and women. National registers that list it by sex count it under both: United States (Census Bureau, 2020). We don't publish a percentage split.
- In which country does Chinonso have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 93 thousand people named Chinonso in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled chinonso.
- How common is the name Chinonso?
- In the United States, the national register counted 295 people named Chinonso in 2020, about 1 in 1.1 million residents.
- How common is Chinonso compared with other names?
- In Nigeria, Chinonso is the 358th most common given name of 138,191 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Chinonso?
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/chinonsoThe 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, “Chinonso” — the 358th most common given name in Nigeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.