Chaya

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Chaya: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Chaya: Recorded every year since 1996, its highest recorded position is #657, and it stood at #686 in 2024.

1registrar recorded it
29times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#657highest recorded position
5groupings it qualifies for

England and Wales · Girls

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#869
1997	#1074
1998	#817
1999	#794
2000	#1033
2001	#710
2002	#667
2003	#893
2004	#866
2005	#1121
2006	#816
2007	#942
2008	#804
2009	#932
2010	#988
2011	#1043
2012	#934
2013	#982
2014	#1005
2015	#965
2016	#897
2017	#949
2018	#1136
2019	#980
2020	#807
2021	#884
2022	#1081
2023	#657
2024	#686

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

Official data for England and Wales, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #869 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #657 among girls in England and Wales, in 2023 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #686 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Chaya by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Chaya in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	98	4 of 10	25
2000s	322	10 of 10	32
2010s	362	10 of 10	36
2020sbusiest	226	5 of 10	45

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 45 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Chaya appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #657 in England and Wales in 2023.

Chaya's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#686	55	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#657	55	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#1081	31	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#884	40	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#807	45	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#980	36	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1136	30	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#949	39	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#897	41	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#965	37	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1005	36	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#982	37	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#934	39	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1043	33	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#988	34	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#932	35	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#804	42	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#942	32	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#816	37	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#1121	22	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#866	31	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#893	28	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#667	40	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#710	35	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#1033	20	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#794	28	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#817	27	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#1074	18	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#869	25	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 1 registrar between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #657, first reached in 2023.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 55 births, registered in England and Wales in 2023.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

4decades with a ranked yearRecorded in 4 decades →
29 yearslongest unbroken run of ranked years20 to 29 unbroken years →
1unbroken stretch — never absent from the recordUnbroken since it first appeared →
#686position in 2024, its most recent recorded year
55births registered in its largest year, 202350 to 99 births →

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 1 registrar, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Havana · #657, 27y
Montague · #657, 29y
Nathanial · #657, 29y
Abdurrahman · #659, 28y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Boden · #657, 21y
Havana · #657, 27y
Marlo · #657, 20y
Montague · #657, 29y

Chaya was ranked #657 in England and Wales · Girls in 2023. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Chaya and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Chaya without appearing here.

Chaya moved ahead of

Elaine Compare
In 2022 they stood at #1081 and #1081 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #657 and #1705.
Christine Compare
In 2022 they stood at #1081 and #1081 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #657 and #1640.
Jane Compare
In 2022 they stood at #1081 and #1023 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #657 and #1469.
Suzanne Compare
In 2005 they stood at #1121 and #745 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2006 that had become #816 and #1585.

Moved ahead of Chaya

Aurora Compare
In 2004 they stood at #866 and #1043 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2005 that had become #1121 and #769.
Beau Compare
In 2002 they stood at #667 and #809 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2003 that had become #893 and #545.
Fiadh Compare
In 2019 they stood at #980 and #1063 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #807 and #460.
Alma Compare
In 2010 they stood at #988 and #1040 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2011 that had become #1043 and #702.

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Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #657 in England and Wales in 2023. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Chaya

Chaya at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Chaya by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Chaya appears in

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

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Chaya at a glance

Chaya by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Chaya appears in

What the record shows

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Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Chaya

Chaya and the names beside it

Chaya moved ahead of

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