Given name
Chirag
“lamp, lightsource”
Chirag is a masculine given name from Persian, meaning “lamp, lightsource.”
Meaning & origin
How it developed
From Persian چراغ (čirāġ, čarāġ, “lamp, lightsource”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1973. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Chirag through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 667
- 667 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1985
- 33 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 6 in 2023. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 33 in 1985. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 2,467 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
People named Chirag
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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