A name. A world of connections.

Chico

A name with a story to discover

masculineLatin script

/ˈʃi.ku/ · Portuguese (Brazil)

Origin: Not established
4 language contexts: English Spanish Portuguese +1 more
Follow the evidence: 8 cited sources Source-reported

01 / Meaning & origin

About Chico

Chico is a masculine given name documented in English, Spanish, Portuguese and 1 other language.

Etymology in the sources

Source-reported

Acortamiento de Francisco.

Sources for this account (8)

Spanish Wiktionary: ChicoCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Wikidata Q19830608CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wiktionary: ChicoCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Greek Wiktionary: ChicoCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
French Wiktionary: ChicoCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Polish Wiktionary: ChicoCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Portuguese Wiktionary: ChicoCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Chinese Wiktionary: ChicoCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14

02 / Across borders

Where Chico is used

Explore official naming statistics and documented language connections around the world.

The name atlas

Across borders

countries in our sources

Select a country to follow Chico’s connections around the world.

3 countries with official statistics. Language records show cultural connections; they do not measure how common a name is.

Selected country

United States

Statistics + language records

United States, 2020: 7 boys (rank 9554). Documented as a given name in English.

Explore United States

4 of 17 countries

03 / By the numbers

Popularity over time

Follow the spelling through the years, one published dataset at a time.

United States

1880–2025 Spelling: Chico

Region and dataset

Recorded category boys

Latest · 2020: 7; applications; Rank #9,554
Peak year: 1977; 56 applications

Hover to explore a year. Use arrow keys when a chart point has focus.

Source: US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)

Integer application counts retained without rounding.

Per million is unavailable: this source has no matching published total.

Show the data table

Chico in United States, boys: applications and rank by year
Year	Applications	Rank	Status
1880	no value	no value	not covered
1881	no value	no value	not covered
1882	no value	no value	not covered
1883	no value	no value	not covered
1884	no value	no value	not covered
1885	no value	no value	not covered
1886	no value	no value	not covered
1887	no value	no value	not covered
1888	no value	no value	not covered
1889	no value	no value	not covered
1890	no value	no value	not covered
1891	no value	no value	not covered
1892	no value	no value	not covered
1893	no value	no value	not covered
1894	no value	no value	not covered
1895	no value	no value	not covered
1896	no value	no value	not covered
1897	no value	no value	not covered
1898	no value	no value	not covered
1899	no value	no value	not covered
1900	no value	no value	not covered
1901	no value	no value	not covered
1902	no value	no value	not covered
1903	no value	no value	not covered
1904	no value	no value	not covered
1905	no value	no value	not covered
1906	no value	no value	not covered
1907	no value	no value	not covered
1908	no value	no value	not covered
1909	no value	no value	not covered
1910	no value	no value	not covered
1911	no value	no value	not covered
1912	no value	no value	not covered
1913	no value	no value	not covered
1914	no value	no value	not covered
1915	no value	no value	not covered
1916	no value	no value	not covered
1917	no value	no value	not covered
1918	no value	no value	not covered
1919	no value	no value	not covered
1920	no value	no value	not covered
1921	no value	no value	not covered
1922	5	4,307	observed
1923	no value	no value	not covered
1924	no value	no value	not covered
1925	no value	no value	not covered
1926	6	3,708	observed
1927	no value	no value	not covered
1928	no value	no value	not covered
1929	no value	no value	not covered
1930	7	3,289	observed
1931	8	2,864	observed
1932	no value	no value	not covered
1933	no value	no value	not covered
1934	no value	no value	not covered
1935	6	3,252	observed
1936	no value	no value	not covered
1937	no value	no value	not covered
1938	no value	no value	not covered
1939	no value	no value	not covered
1940	no value	no value	not covered
1941	no value	no value	not covered
1942	7	2,940	observed
1943	no value	no value	not covered
1944	no value	no value	not covered
1945	6	2,996	observed
1946	no value	no value	not covered
1947	no value	no value	not covered
1948	7	3,010	observed
1949	6	3,298	observed
1950	no value	no value	not covered
1951	6	3,364	observed
1952	9	2,680	observed
1953	9	2,709	observed
1954	10	2,592	observed
1955	16	1,979	observed
1956	11	2,497	observed
1957	12	2,375	observed
1958	20	1,766	observed
1959	15	2,111	observed
1960	8	3,077	observed
1961	6	3,652	observed
1962	12	2,364	observed
1963	11	2,539	observed
1964	11	2,546	observed
1965	7	3,244	observed
1966	13	2,216	observed
1967	14	2,139	observed
1968	12	2,445	observed
1969	11	2,682	observed
1970	20	1,989	observed
1971	18	2,203	observed
1972	15	2,418	observed
1973	28	1,653	observed
1974	32	1,546	observed
1975	37	1,455	observed
1976	52	1,190	observed
1977	56	1,177	observed
1978	31	1,718	observed
1979	31	1,788	observed
1980	29	1,910	observed
1981	21	2,338	observed
1982	15	2,972	observed
1983	12	3,411	observed
1984	10	3,925	observed
1985	9	4,333	observed
1986	12	3,653	observed
1987	17	2,942	observed
1988	12	3,915	observed
1989	10	4,811	observed
1990	15	3,779	observed
1991	11	4,760	observed
1992	8	6,128	observed
1993	11	5,002	observed
1994	14	4,290	observed
1995	11	5,124	observed
1996	7	7,136	observed
1997	14	4,451	observed
1998	15	4,413	observed
1999	10	6,042	observed
2000	9	6,839	observed
2001	16	4,676	observed
2002	6	9,392	observed
2003	10	6,715	observed
2004	7	8,927	observed
2005	9	7,640	observed
2006	8	8,732	observed
2007	5	12,367	observed
2008	no value	no value	not covered
2009	8	8,985	observed
2010	no value	no value	not covered
2011	no value	no value	not covered
2012	7	9,709	observed
2013	no value	no value	not covered
2014	no value	no value	not covered
2015	no value	no value	not covered
2016	no value	no value	not covered
2017	no value	no value	not covered
2018	no value	no value	not covered
2019	5	12,145	observed
2020	7	9,554	observed
2021	no value	no value	not covered
2022	no value	no value	not covered
2023	no value	no value	not covered
2024	no value	no value	not covered
2025	no value	no value	not covered

About this dataset and its counting rules

Statistics count the spelling “Chico” as recorded by the publisher. When a spelling has several independent origins, the counts are not split between them. Counts measure applications. Gaps are years without a published value, not zeros.

Rates per million are unavailable for this series because no compatible denominator has been imported.

Universe: US national Social Security card applications by name, sex and birth year; not a complete birth registry, especially before 1937.
Rounding: Integer application counts retained without rounding.
Suppression: Only names with at least 5 occurrences in a year and sex are included. Missing observations are not zeros.
Ranking: computed by NameStoria from published counts; ties share a rank, next rank skips. The mirror's derived rank column is not used.

Retrieved 2026-10-15 · CC0-1.0

Read our methodology

04 / Through time

History

No historical attestations or sourced notable bearers are recorded yet. Historical databases are being evaluated for reuse permission; nothing is listed until a record can be cited.

A little story to keep

A name worth keeping.

Take the story of Chico with you. Create a personal name passport with its meaning, roots and connections.

06 / Behind the facts

Sources for this page

Review status: Source-reported — no editorial review recorded yet. Last data change 2026-10-15.

Name origins & languageDictionaries, name records and related forms8

Wikidata Q19830608CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wiktionary: ChicoCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Greek Wiktionary: ChicoCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
French Wiktionary: ChicoCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Spanish Wiktionary: ChicoCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Polish Wiktionary: ChicoCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Portuguese Wiktionary: ChicoCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Chinese Wiktionary: ChicoCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14

Official statisticsPublishers, dataset licences and retrieval dates3

SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)
US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Fichier des prénoms — édition 2026 (naissances 1900 à 2025), fichier national
Insee (Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques) · LO-2.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Baby names in England and Wales: 2025 (boys and girls workbooks, Table 6: all published names)
Office for National Statistics (ONS) · OGL-UK-3.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14

Wiktionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikidata: CC0. Commons recordings retain their individual file licences. Complete attribution is available in each group above and alongside each chart.

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About Chico

Chico is a masculine given name documented in English, Spanish, Portuguese and 1 other language.

Etymology in the sources

Source-reported

Acortamiento de Francisco.

Sources for this account (8)

Spanish Wiktionary: ChicoCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Wikidata Q19830608CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wiktionary: ChicoCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Greek Wiktionary: ChicoCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
French Wiktionary: ChicoCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Polish Wiktionary: ChicoCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Portuguese Wiktionary: ChicoCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Chinese Wiktionary: ChicoCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14

Where Chico is used

Explore official naming statistics and documented language connections around the world.

The name atlas

Across borders

countries in our sources

Select a country to follow Chico’s connections around the world.

3 countries with official statistics. Language records show cultural connections; they do not measure how common a name is.

Selected country

United States

Statistics + language records

United States, 2020: 7 boys (rank 9554). Documented as a given name in English.

Explore United States

4 of 17 countries

Popularity over time

Follow the spelling through the years, one published dataset at a time.

United States

1880–2025 Spelling: Chico

Region and dataset

Recorded category boys

Latest · 2020: 7; applications; Rank #9,554
Peak year: 1977; 56 applications

Hover to explore a year. Use arrow keys when a chart point has focus.

Source: US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)

Integer application counts retained without rounding.

Per million is unavailable: this source has no matching published total.

Show the data table

Chico in United States, boys: applications and rank by year
Year	Applications	Rank	Status
1880	no value	no value	not covered
1881	no value	no value	not covered
1882	no value	no value	not covered
1883	no value	no value	not covered
1884	no value	no value	not covered
1885	no value	no value	not covered
1886	no value	no value	not covered
1887	no value	no value	not covered
1888	no value	no value	not covered
1889	no value	no value	not covered
1890	no value	no value	not covered
1891	no value	no value	not covered
1892	no value	no value	not covered
1893	no value	no value	not covered
1894	no value	no value	not covered
1895	no value	no value	not covered
1896	no value	no value	not covered
1897	no value	no value	not covered
1898	no value	no value	not covered
1899	no value	no value	not covered
1900	no value	no value	not covered
1901	no value	no value	not covered
1902	no value	no value	not covered
1903	no value	no value	not covered
1904	no value	no value	not covered
1905	no value	no value	not covered
1906	no value	no value	not covered
1907	no value	no value	not covered
1908	no value	no value	not covered
1909	no value	no value	not covered
1910	no value	no value	not covered
1911	no value	no value	not covered
1912	no value	no value	not covered
1913	no value	no value	not covered
1914	no value	no value	not covered
1915	no value	no value	not covered
1916	no value	no value	not covered
1917	no value	no value	not covered
1918	no value	no value	not covered
1919	no value	no value	not covered
1920	no value	no value	not covered
1921	no value	no value	not covered
1922	5	4,307	observed
1923	no value	no value	not covered
1924	no value	no value	not covered
1925	no value	no value	not covered
1926	6	3,708	observed
1927	no value	no value	not covered
1928	no value	no value	not covered
1929	no value	no value	not covered
1930	7	3,289	observed
1931	8	2,864	observed
1932	no value	no value	not covered
1933	no value	no value	not covered
1934	no value	no value	not covered
1935	6	3,252	observed
1936	no value	no value	not covered
1937	no value	no value	not covered
1938	no value	no value	not covered
1939	no value	no value	not covered
1940	no value	no value	not covered
1941	no value	no value	not covered
1942	7	2,940	observed
1943	no value	no value	not covered
1944	no value	no value	not covered
1945	6	2,996	observed
1946	no value	no value	not covered
1947	no value	no value	not covered
1948	7	3,010	observed
1949	6	3,298	observed
1950	no value	no value	not covered
1951	6	3,364	observed
1952	9	2,680	observed
1953	9	2,709	observed
1954	10	2,592	observed
1955	16	1,979	observed
1956	11	2,497	observed
1957	12	2,375	observed
1958	20	1,766	observed
1959	15	2,111	observed
1960	8	3,077	observed
1961	6	3,652	observed
1962	12	2,364	observed
1963	11	2,539	observed
1964	11	2,546	observed
1965	7	3,244	observed
1966	13	2,216	observed
1967	14	2,139	observed
1968	12	2,445	observed
1969	11	2,682	observed
1970	20	1,989	observed
1971	18	2,203	observed
1972	15	2,418	observed
1973	28	1,653	observed
1974	32	1,546	observed
1975	37	1,455	observed
1976	52	1,190	observed
1977	56	1,177	observed
1978	31	1,718	observed
1979	31	1,788	observed
1980	29	1,910	observed
1981	21	2,338	observed
1982	15	2,972	observed
1983	12	3,411	observed
1984	10	3,925	observed
1985	9	4,333	observed
1986	12	3,653	observed
1987	17	2,942	observed
1988	12	3,915	observed
1989	10	4,811	observed
1990	15	3,779	observed
1991	11	4,760	observed
1992	8	6,128	observed
1993	11	5,002	observed
1994	14	4,290	observed
1995	11	5,124	observed
1996	7	7,136	observed
1997	14	4,451	observed
1998	15	4,413	observed
1999	10	6,042	observed
2000	9	6,839	observed
2001	16	4,676	observed
2002	6	9,392	observed
2003	10	6,715	observed
2004	7	8,927	observed
2005	9	7,640	observed
2006	8	8,732	observed
2007	5	12,367	observed
2008	no value	no value	not covered
2009	8	8,985	observed
2010	no value	no value	not covered
2011	no value	no value	not covered
2012	7	9,709	observed
2013	no value	no value	not covered
2014	no value	no value	not covered
2015	no value	no value	not covered
2016	no value	no value	not covered
2017	no value	no value	not covered
2018	no value	no value	not covered
2019	5	12,145	observed
2020	7	9,554	observed
2021	no value	no value	not covered
2022	no value	no value	not covered
2023	no value	no value	not covered
2024	no value	no value	not covered
2025	no value	no value	not covered

About this dataset and its counting rules

Rates per million are unavailable for this series because no compatible denominator has been imported.

Universe: US national Social Security card applications by name, sex and birth year; not a complete birth registry, especially before 1937.
Rounding: Integer application counts retained without rounding.
Suppression: Only names with at least 5 occurrences in a year and sex are included. Missing observations are not zeros.
Ranking: computed by NameStoria from published counts; ties share a rank, next rank skips. The mirror's derived rank column is not used.

Retrieved 2026-10-15 · CC0-1.0

Read our methodology

Sources for this page

Review status: Source-reported — no editorial review recorded yet. Last data change 2026-10-15.

Name origins & languageDictionaries, name records and related forms8

Wikidata Q19830608CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wiktionary: ChicoCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Greek Wiktionary: ChicoCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
French Wiktionary: ChicoCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Spanish Wiktionary: ChicoCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Polish Wiktionary: ChicoCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Portuguese Wiktionary: ChicoCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Chinese Wiktionary: ChicoCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14

Official statisticsPublishers, dataset licences and retrieval dates3

SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)
US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Fichier des prénoms — édition 2026 (naissances 1900 à 2025), fichier national
Insee (Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques) · LO-2.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Baby names in England and Wales: 2025 (boys and girls workbooks, Table 6: all published names)
Office for National Statistics (ONS) · OGL-UK-3.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14

Wiktionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikidata: CC0. Commons recordings retain their individual file licences. Complete attribution is available in each group above and alongside each chart.

Chico

About Chico

Etymology in the sources

Where Chico is used

Across borders

United States

Popularity over time

United States

History

Chick

Francisco

Kiko

A name worth keeping.

Sources for this page

Chico

About Chico

Etymology in the sources

Where Chico is used

Across borders

United States

Popularity over time

United States

History

Chick

Francisco

Kiko

A name worth keeping.

Sources for this page

A story to pass on.

About Chico

Etymology in the sources

Where Chico is used

Across borders

United States

Popularity over time

United States

History

Related names

Different forms. Shared stories.

Meet the family

Related names in the catalogue

Chick

Francisco

Kiko

A name worth keeping.

Sources for this page

A story to pass on.

About Chico

Etymology in the sources

Where Chico is used

Across borders

United States

Popularity over time

United States

History

Related names

Different forms. Shared stories.

Meet the family

Related names in the catalogue

Chick

Francisco

Kiko

A name worth keeping.

Sources for this page