Given name & surname
Chika
“a woman with great wisdom”
Chika is used as a given name and a surname. One Japanese interpretation is “a woman with great wisdom.”
Original Japanese智加
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Japanese interpretation is “a woman with great wisdom.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Japanese.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1976. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Chika through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 378
- 28 boys · 350 girls
- Most popular year
- 1997
- 19 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 7 in 2022. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,232 as a first name in 2020; 122 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Chika’s family of names
Chika has a related form in Chica. In Japanese usage, Chika is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 千夏. In Japanese usage, Chika is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 千花.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 15
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Chika
- Chika IkeNigerian actressborn 1985
- Chika AnzaiJapanese voice actressborn 1990
- Chika ChukwumerijeTaekwondo practitionerborn 1983
- Chika KurodaJapanese chemist1884–1968
- Chika UnigweNigerian writerborn 1974
- Chica UminoJapanese mangakaborn 1965
- Chika OduahNigerian-American journalistborn 1986
- Chika AnaduNigerian filmmakerborn 1980
- Chika SakamotoJapanese voice actressborn 1959
Characters named Chika: Chika Fujiwara (Kaguya-sama: Love is War).
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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