Chinelo comes from the African / Yoruba / Swahili tradition, meaning "God remembers me, or God remembers.".
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How popular is Chinelo?
1993peak year
The name Chinelo reached its peak in 1993, with 11 registrations (ranked #7602). It had only entered records 10 years earlier, in 1983. Since the peak, the name has eased to well outside the top 1,000 (around #14898) today, averaging about 6 new babies per year. Across all years on record, approximately 136 American babies have carried this name.
Year-by-year registrations1880–2024 · U.S. Social Security data
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