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Chiquita vs Chirstopher

American parents have registered 6,225 Chiquitas since 1880, against 1,051 Chirstophers. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Chiquita against Chirstopher, 1880 to 2025 0 100 200 300 400 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Chiquita Chirstopher

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

Of the 79 years in which either name was published, Chiquita for 76 years and Chirstopher for 3 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Chiquita Chirstopher
Total US births 6,2251,051
Most in one year 37357
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 5,700970
Median age today 4544
Peak year 19851981
Best rank 532nd girls1,207th boys
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19171960
Girls / boys 6,219 / 60 / 1,051

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.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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