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Chenoa

Chenoa reached its high-water mark in 1976 at number 1,662, and has been recorded 1,736 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 10,917th. About 1,700 Chenoas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 31.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 15 30 45 60 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Chenoa

By the numbers

Total US births
1,736
Estimated living today
1,700
Median age today
31
Peak year
1976
Best rank
1,662nd
Rank in 2025
10,917th
First recorded
1967

How old the living Chenoas are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 15 30 45 60 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 1,736 babies given the name since 1967, about 1,700 are alive — 97 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1994 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Notable Chenoas

People named Chenoa with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Chenoa is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Chenoa is most concentrated in California (7.2×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1976

The most popular girls’ names the year Chenoa peaked:

All the names of 1976

Chenoa elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
France girls Chenoa 95 2,023rd
Belgium girls Chenoa 57 591st
England and Wales girls Chenoa 7 4,157th

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Chenoa: rank by region

In 2005, Chenoa was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.

Region Spelling Place Children
Flanders Chenoa 778 5

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Where Chenoa lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 292 women called Chenoa were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.

Women: the provinces where it is densest

Province Spelling People Per thousand Place there
Salamanca Chenoa 7 0.041 1,132
Granada Chenoa 19 0.040 1,208
Lleida Chenoa 9 0.040 1,427
León Chenoa 7 0.030 1,514
Valladolid Chenoa 7 0.026 1,585
Cádiz Chenoa 14 0.022 1,480

Listed in 26 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 26 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

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Chenoa against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.