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Chiara vs Chivon

American parents have registered 5,927 Chiaras since 1880, against 207 Chivons. Chiara is still ahead, with 228 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Chiara against Chivon, 1880 to 2025 0 60 120 180 240 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Chiara Chivon

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Chiara has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1951 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1980, when Chiara had 32 and Chivon had 32.

Side by side

  Chiara Chivon
Total US births 5,927207
Most in one year 22832
Babies in 2025 228under 5
Estimated living today 5,800200
Median age today 1843
Peak year 20251980
Best rank 1,065th girls2,800th girls
Rank in 2025 1,065thunranked
First recorded 19511978
Girls / boys 5,927 / 0207 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Chivons alive today are over 43; half the Chiaras are over 18. That is 25 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Chiara and Chivon.