Chico
The boy's name Chico has been in the national records since 1922, with 951 births to its name. It has not appeared in the national data since 2020. About 810 Chicos are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 48.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Chico
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 951
- Estimated living today
- 810
- Median age today
- 48
- Peak year
- 1977
- Best rank
- 1,177th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1922
How old the living Chicos are
born that year still alive today
Of the 951 babies given the name since 1922, about 810 are alive — 85 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1977 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Portuguese
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Chicos
- Chico Buarque (born 1944)Brazilian singer-songwriter
- Chico Marx (1887–1961)American comedian
- Chico Mendes (1944–1988)Brazilian trade union leader and environmentalist
- Chico Hamilton (1921–2013)American musician
- Chico Serra (born 1957)Brazilian racing driver
- Chico Landi (1907–1989)racecar driver
- Chico Bouchikhi (born 1954)Moroccan musician
- Chico Freeman (born 1949)American saxophonist
People named Chico with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Chico is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Chico is most concentrated in South Carolina (23.8×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1977
The most popular boys’ names the year Chico peaked:
Chico elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Chico | 20 | 5,655th |
| England and Wales boys | Chico | 6 | 5,137th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Related names
Chico against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.