Chinmay
Chinmay is a given name. Notable people with the name include:Chinmay Mandlekar, Indian stage director Chinmay Udgirkar, Indian actor
Meaning & Origin of Chinmay
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Chinmay is a given name. Notable people with the name include:Chinmay Mandlekar, Indian stage director Chinmay Udgirkar, Indian actor
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The Story of Chinmay
Chinmay first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a baby boy name in 1999, with 5 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 2008: 14 births, good for #6,069 nationwide. About 52% of every Chinmay on record arrived during the 2000s, its defining decade. Chinmay last appeared in the published SSA data in 2022, with 5 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 181 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1990s to the 2020s.
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About the name Chinmay
Chinmay is a boy baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1999 and has accumulated 181 births in the dataset. Chinmay's peak popularity came in 2008 when it ranked #6,069. Use the chart and map above to compare Chinmay's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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