Chê

given name · Latin script

Meaning: to criticize, belittle, to turn up one's nose at

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Chê is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 139K(measured from records)
  • NONorway1 in 64K
  • FIFinland1 in 103K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

2,393 people, 2010

Sources
50 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 64K (inferred from the name graph)

Norway

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Che in US United States.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

to criticize, belittle, to turn up one's nose at

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Chê counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Chê is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States2,3931 in 139K3.3KChe50
BR Brazil3151 in 672K315—1
ES Spain1201 in 417K120—3
NO Norway861 in 64K86—8
AR Argentina621 in 734K62—1
FI Finland541 in 103K54—1
CH Switzerland391 in 215K39—2
DK Denmark191 in 309K19—1

2,393 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Chê is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname27 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Cameroon, Belgium, United States

    Also written Che, Ché, Chè, Chē, Çhę

  • Chinese surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Malaysia, China, Taiwan

    Also written Che, Che', Ché, Chè, Chế

  • English surname61 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Malaysia, United States, Australia, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Che, Ché, Che', Tsche, Che’

  • Spanish surname32 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Mexico, Guatemala, Peru, United States

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Che, Ché, Che', Chè, Çhė

  • Korean surname93 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in South Korea, United States, United Kingdom, Australia

    Languages: Korean, English, German

    Also written 채, Cha, Chae, Che, Ch'Ae

  • Bulgarian surname28 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Bulgaria, China, Malaysia, Kazakhstan

    Languages: Bulgarian, Croatian, Serbian

    Also written Che, Че, Цхе, Će, Če

4 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Chê is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In scn, alternative form of chî (“with the”)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

12001400160018002000Liu Zhe, b. 1395Wang Zhe, b. 1427Liu Zhe, b. 1428Chen Zhe, b. 1435Jang Chol, b. 1955Sun Zhe, b. 1990
  • Liu Zheb. 1395not in their usual namepolitician
  • Wang Zheb. 1427not in their usual namepolitician
  • Liu Zheb. 1428not in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 198849
  • Chen Zheb. 1435not in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 199474
  • Jang Cholb. 1955KPnot in their usual nameNorth Korean politician
  • Sun Zheb. 1990CNnot in their usual nameChinese basketball player
  • Zhang Zhenot in their usual nameSong dynasty person CBDB = 46718
  • Zhang Zhenot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 346616
  • Chen Zhenot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 304447
  • Chen Zhenot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 305112

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Chê under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Chê mean, and where does it come from?
to criticize, belittle, to turn up one's nose at Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
Is Chê a male or female name?
Chê is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
In which country does Chê have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 2.4 thousand people named Chê, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled che.
Where is Chê most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Chê is densest in Norway — about 1 in 64 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Chê?
In the United States, the national register counted 2,393 people named Chê in 2010, about 1 in 139 thousand residents.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Chê”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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