Chioma
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/tʃioʊmə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Chioma is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country. In Malta it is the 37th most common given name.
- NGNigeria≈1 in 800(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 120K
- USUnited States1 in 189K
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
- 255 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 800 (inferred from the name graph)
≈270,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Nigeria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Chioma 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 | #104 | ≈270,000 est. | ≈1 in 800 | listed | Chioma | 130 |
| US United States | — | 1,759 | 1 in 189K | 1.7K | Chioma | 255 |
| CM Cameroon | — | ≈850 est. | ≈1 in 33K | — | Chioma | 3 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈550 est. | ≈1 in 120K | listed | Chioma | 129 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Chioma | 5 |
| MT Malta | #37 | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | — | Chioma | 6 |
| SE Sweden | — | 115 | 1 in 89K | 115 | — | 10 |
| LY Libya | — | ≈86 est. | ≈1 in 80K | — | Chioma | 2 |
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). 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)
Chioma 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.
In Italian, head of hair
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)
- Chioma Ajunwab. 1970NGNigerian long jumper, sprinter, and footballer
- Chioma Toplisb. 1972NGNigerian actress
- Chioma Chukwuka Akpothab. 1980NGNigerian actress
- Chioma Okoyeb. 1983NGNigerian actress and producer
- Chioma Nnamakab. 1985SESwedish basketball player (born 1985)
- Chioma Igweb. 1986USAmerican soccer player
- Chioma Ubogagub. 1992GBEnglish footballer
- Chioma Nwaohab. 1995NGNigerian actress and Entrepreneur
- Chioma Umealab. 1996ZANigerian-South African actress
- Chioma Wogub. 1999NGassociation 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)
Attested in 43 sources across 24 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.7K | #8,273 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 115 | #7,744 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1997 | 40 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2003 | 35 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2008 | 32 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 31 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2006 | 31 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2004 | 30 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1995 | 29 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 28 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2005 | 28 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2000 | 28 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name 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
- How do you pronounce Chioma?
- A machine transcription gives /tʃioʊmə/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Chioma a male or female name?
- Chioma 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 Chioma have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 268 thousand people named Chioma in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled chioma.
- How common is the name Chioma?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,759 people named Chioma in 2020, about 1 in 189 thousand residents.
- How common is Chioma compared with other names?
- In Nigeria, Chioma is the 104th most common given name of 138,191 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Chioma?
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/chiomaThe 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, “Chioma” — the 104th most common given name in Nigeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.