Given name
Chinua
“one who is blessed by God”
Chinua is used as a given name. One African interpretation is “one who is blessed by God.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One African interpretation is “one who is blessed by God.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is African.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1977. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Chinua through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 20
- 20 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1977
- 5 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 boys is 5 in 2017. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
People named Chinua
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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