Given name & surname
Chiyo
“of a thousand years; eternal”
Chiyo is used as a given name and a surname. One Japanese interpretation is “of a thousand years; eternal.”
Original Japaneseちよ
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Japanese interpretation is “of a thousand years; eternal.”
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 1914. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Chiyo through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 135
- 0 boys · 135 girls
- Most popular year
- 1917
- 12 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 5 in 2019. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 306 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.
Chiyo’s family of names
In Japanese usage, Chiyo is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 千夜. In Japanese usage, Chiyo is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 千芳. In Japanese usage, Chiyo is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 知与.
The ring: spellings.
Spellings & scripts 5
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Chiyo
- Kaga no ChiyoJapanese writer (1703-1775)
- Chiyo UnoJapanese writer (1897-1996)
- Yamauchi ChiyoJapanese woman from the end of the Muromachi period to the early of the Edo period1557–1617
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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