# Chiquita (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/chiquita/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 6,225 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 6 / 6,219 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 14, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 176 | 1,026 |
| 1991 | 191 | 982 |
| 1992 | 148 | 1,183 |
| 1993 | 87 | 1,710 |
| 1994 | 58 | 2,264 |
| 1995 | 39 | 2,986 |
| 1996 | 26 | 4,083 |
| 1997 | 29 | 3,832 |
| 1998 | 23 | 4,664 |
| 1999 | 11 | 8,349 |
| 2000 | 16 | 6,554 |
| 2001 | 11 | 8,895 |
| 2002 | 9 | 10,407 |
| 2003 | 7 | 12,684 |
| 2005 | 6 | 14,872 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1989 | 6 | 7,102 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 3 | 3,848 |
| 2001 | 4 | 3,262 |
| 2003 | 4 | 3,594 |
| 2005 | 3 | 4,798 |

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.