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Chyann vs Chyna

American parents have registered 5,805 Chynas since 1880, against 944 Chyanns. Chyna is still ahead, with 27 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Chyann against Chyna, 1880 to 2025 0 150 300 450 600 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Chyann Chyna

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

Chyna has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1979 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1986, when Chyann had 6 and Chyna had 12.

Side by side

  Chyann Chyna
Total US births 9445,805
Most in one year 58573
Babies in 2025 527
Estimated living today 9305,700
Median age today 2325
Peak year 20001999
Best rank 2,569th girls463rd girls
Rank in 2025 14,942nd4,878th
First recorded 19801979
Girls / boys 944 / 05,805 / 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 Chynas alive today are over 25; half the Chyanns are over 23. That is 2 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

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

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Chyann Chyna
England and Wales 3409

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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