Chisom

Used for both boys and girlsStatistical record

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

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

Chisom: Recorded since 1999, it reached #576 in 2004, and it stood at #2,263 in 2024.

2registrars recorded it
46times a registrar ranked it
26years from first to last
#576highest recorded position
9groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1999–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1999	#2770
2000	#3912
2002	#4137
2003	#3099
2004	#3197
2005	#3382
2006	#2509
2007	#2627
2008	#3397
2009	#1909
2010	#1993
2011	#4049
2012	#2969
2013	#2176
2014	#3160
2015	#3252
2016	#1834
2017	#1995
2018	#2674
2019	#2170
2020	#1846
2021	#2499
2022	#2058
2023	#1863
2024	#2771

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

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in 25 of the 26 years from 1999 to 2024.

In 2011: #798 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #4049 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1999–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1999
First recorded at #2770 among girls in England and Wales in 1999 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded2002–2011
Highest recorded position: #576 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2004 (recorded 2002–2011).
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #2771 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Chisom appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 25 years beginning in 1999, and has registered 226 births with the name.

Chisom across 3 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.

Chisom'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	#2770 (1999)	#1834 (2016)	#2771 (2024)	25 of 26	226 (1999–2024)	16 (2016)
England and Wales · Boys	#2754 (2005)	#2263 (2024)	#2263 (2024)	17 of 20	88 (2005–2024)	10 (2024)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#620 (2002)	#576 (2004)	#798 (2011)	4 of 10	14 (2002–2011)	4 (2004)

Chisom 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 Chisom in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	5	1 of 10	5
2000s	56	9 of 10	6
2010s	103	10 of 10	10
2020sbusiest	62	5 of 10	12

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 12 births a year.

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

Chisom 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 1999 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #576 in Republic of Ireland in 2004.

Chisom'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	#2771	9	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#2263	10	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#1863	15	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#2325	9	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#2058	13	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#4001	4	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#2499	10	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#1846	15	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#2170	12	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#4702	3	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#2674	9	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#3011	6	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#1995	14	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#3996	4	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#1834	16	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#3478	5	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#3252	7	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#4747	3	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#3160	7	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#2690	7	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#2176	12	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#2954	6	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#2969	8	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#3416	5	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#4049	5	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#2892	6	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1993	13	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#3865	4	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1909	13	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#4527	3	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#3397	6	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#3158	5	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#2627	8	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#2509	8	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#4052	3	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#3382	5	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#2754	5	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#3197	5	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#3099	5	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#4137	3	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#3912	3	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#2770	5	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	female	#798	4	High	Verified
2005	Republic of Ireland	female	#689	3	High	Verified
2004	Republic of Ireland	female	#576	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 1999 and 2024, ranked in 25 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #576, first reached in 2004.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 16 births, registered in England and Wales in 2016.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

Its record falls into 2 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 1 year.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2002, and 3 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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Chizaram · #351, 18y

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.

Anabel · #576, 29y
Danah · #576, 20y
Kaylin · #576, 24y
Kiya · #576, 29y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Anabel · #576, 29y
Danah · #576, 20y
Kaylin · #576, 24y
Kiya · #576, 29y

Chisom was ranked #576 in Republic of Ireland · Girls in 2004. 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.

Chisom 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 Chisom without appearing here.

Chisom moved ahead of

Belinda Compare
In 2015 they stood at #3252 and #2945 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #1834 and #5785.
Kristine Compare
In 2015 they stood at #3252 and #3252 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #1834 and #5785.
Cecilie Compare
In 2012 they stood at #4049 and #2636 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2013 that had become #2176 and #5742.
Finley Compare
In 2018 they stood at #2674 and #2674 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #2170 and #5591.

Moved ahead of Chisom

Rune Compare
In 2018 they stood at #3011 and #4749 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2019 that had become #4702 and #2104.
Malin Compare
In 2018 they stood at #3011 and #4749 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2019 that had become #4702 and #2728.
Alma Compare
In 1999 they stood at #2770 and #3225 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2000 that had become #3912 and #2416.
Aria Compare
In 1999 they stood at #2770 and #3225 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2000 that had become #3912 and #2416.

Moved the same way as Chisom

Aksel Compare
Between 2006 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Chisom went from #4052 to #2263 and Aksel from #4052 to #1132.
Brent Compare
Between 2005 and 2022 in England and Wales · Boys, Chisom went from #2754 to #4001 and Brent from #1095 to #3449.
Ole Compare
Between 2005 and 2022 in England and Wales · Boys, Chisom went from #2754 to #4001 and Ole from #2754 to #4789.
Tor Compare
Between 2005 and 2022 in England and Wales · Boys, Chisom went from #2754 to #4001 and Tor from #1851 to #3449.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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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 1999 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #576 in Republic of Ireland in 2004. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Chisom

Chisom at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Chisom across 3 official records

Chisom by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Chisom appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Chisom at a glance

Chisom across 3 official records

Chisom by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Chisom

Chisom and the names beside it

Chisom moved ahead of

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