Chinyere
Chinyere is a common Igbo given name that means “God provides”. It can be an element in longer names, such as Nkechinyere. It is unisex, but more common for girls.
- Igbo
Meaning & Origin of Chinyere
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Chinyere is a common Igbo given name that means “God provides”. It can be an element in longer names, such as Nkechinyere. It is unisex, but more common for girls.
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Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- Igbo
The Story of Chinyere
Chinyere first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a baby girl name in 1971, with 6 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 1992: 24 births, good for #4,236 nationwide. About 30% of every Chinyere on record arrived during the 1990s, its defining decade. Chinyere last appeared in the published SSA data in 2021, with 6 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 585 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1970s to the 2020s.
Popularity Over Time
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Variants & Related Forms of Chinyere
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About the name Chinyere
Chinyere is a girl baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1971 and has accumulated 585 births in the dataset. Chinyere's peak popularity came in 1992 when it ranked #4,236. Use the chart and map above to compare Chinyere'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 .
Peek a Name aggregates and presents the above data for informational purposes. Statistical predictions and external attributions are clearly labelled where shown; we make no guarantee of accuracy beyond what each source provides.