Chioma

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Chioma: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #559 in 2003, and it stood at #1,743 in 2024.

2registrars recorded it
35times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#559highest recorded position
10groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#2096
1997	#1543
1998	#1823
1999	#2444
2000	#2167
2001	#3262
2002	#3409
2003	#3594
2004	#2802
2005	#1934
2006	#1983
2007	#1965
2008	#1815
2009	#1596
2010	#2589
2011	#1729
2012	#2215
2013	#1956
2014	#1798
2015	#2328
2016	#2233
2017	#2706
2018	#2187
2019	#2286
2020	#3117
2021	#5581
2022	#1849
2023	#1705
2024	#1743

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.

In 2017: #873 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #2706 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #2096 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 recorded2002–2017
Highest recorded position: #559 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2003 (recorded 2002–2017).
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #1743 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Chioma appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 304 births with the name.

Chioma across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Chioma's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#2096 (1996)	#1543 (1997)	#1743 (2024)	29 of 29	304 (1996–2024)	17 (2009)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#620 (2002)	#559 (2003)	#873 (2017)	6 of 16	20 (2002–2017)	4 (2003)

Chioma 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 Chioma in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	33	4 of 10	8
2000s	90	10 of 10	9
2010sbusiest	122	10 of 10	12
2020s	59	5 of 10	12

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 12 births a year.

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

Chioma appears in

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

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #559 in Republic of Ireland in 2003.

Chioma'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	#1743	17	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#1705	17	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#1849	15	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#5581	3	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#3117	7	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#2286	11	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#2187	12	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#2706	9	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#2233	12	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#2328	11	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1798	16	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1956	14	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#2215	12	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1729	16	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#2589	9	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1596	17	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1815	14	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#1965	12	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1983	11	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#1934	11	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#2802	6	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#3594	4	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#3409	4	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#3262	4	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#2167	7	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#2444	6	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#1823	9	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#1543	11	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#2096	7	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	female	#873	3	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	female	#907	3	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	female	#758	4	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	female	#862	3	High	Verified
2003	Republic of Ireland	female	#559	4	High	Verified
2002	Republic of Ireland	female	#620	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #559, first reached in 2003.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 17 births, registered in England and Wales in 2009.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2002, and 6 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

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.

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 2 registrars, 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.

Chiamaka · #559, 26y
Leena · #559, 29y
Reegan · #559, 29y
Hadiya · #558, 28y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Ameer · #559, 30y
Chiamaka · #559, 26y
Emmanuela · #559, 23y
Leena · #559, 29y

Chioma was ranked #559 in Republic of Ireland · Girls in 2003. 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.

Chioma 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 Chioma without appearing here.

Chioma moved ahead of

Belinda Compare
In 2022 they stood at #5581 and #4634 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #1705 and #5687.
Donna Compare
In 2021 they stood at #5581 and #4634 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2022 that had become #1849 and #5669.
Kerry Compare
In 2023 they stood at #5581 and #4634 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #1743 and #4843.
Pauline Compare
In 2023 they stood at #5581 and #4634 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #1743 and #4843.

Moved ahead of Chioma

Meabh Compare
In 2020 they stood at #3117 and #3447 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #5581 and #1286.
Karin Compare
In 2020 they stood at #3117 and #4535 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #5581 and #3192.
Beau Compare
In 2000 they stood at #2167 and #3247 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2001 that had become #3262 and #1107.
Finn Compare
In 2020 they stood at #2706 and #4763 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #5581 and #3519.

Moved the opposite way to Chioma

Dianne Compare
Between 2002 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Chioma went from #3409 to #1743 while Dianne went from #4137 to #5891.

Moved the same way as Chioma

Carol Compare
Between 1996 and 2021 in England and Wales · Girls, Chioma went from #2096 to #5581 and Carol from #802 to #3519.
Tyler Compare
Between 1996 and 2021 in England and Wales · Girls, Chioma went from #2096 to #5581 and Tyler from #230 to #5581.
Harper Compare
Between 2001 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Chioma went from #3262 to #1743 and Harper from #3262 to #22.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
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Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #559 in Republic of Ireland in 2003. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Chioma

Chioma at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Chioma across 2 official records

Chioma by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Chioma at a glance

Chioma across 2 official records

Chioma by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Chioma appears in

What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Chioma

Chioma and the names beside it

Chioma moved ahead of

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