Chirag
Chirag is a boy's name that peaked in 1985, when it was the 1,794th most popular in the United States. It has not appeared in the national data since 2023. About 640 Chirags are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 35.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Chirag
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 667
- Estimated living today
- 640
- Median age today
- 35
- Peak year
- 1985
- Best rank
- 1,794th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1973
How old the living Chirags are
born that year still alive today
Of the 667 babies given the name since 1973, about 640 are alive — 95 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1990 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.
Where the name comes from
Origin Ancient Persia often used in India
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Chirags
- Chirag Shetty (born 1997)Indian badminton player
People named Chirag with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Chirag is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Chirag is most concentrated in New Jersey (13.5×), Illinois (6.4×), California (2.2×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1985
The most popular boys’ names the year Chirag peaked:
Chirag elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Chirag | 99 | 1,130th |
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.
Related names
Chirag 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.