Chëf
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Chëf is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: head, leader, boss.
- USUnited States≈1 in 1.1M(inferred from the name graph)
- CACanada≈1 in 1.4M
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 2.3M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 119 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 398K (inferred from the name graph)
≈320 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Singapore, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Chef in US United States, GB United Kingdom, CA Canada and 3 more.
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)head, leader, boss
Cited for this meaning 1
- A Frequency Dictionary of German
Attested across 29 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Chëf 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Chef | 119 |
| FR France | ≈53 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | 45 | — | 2 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈29 est. | ≈1 in 2.3M | — | Chef | 34 |
| CA Canada | ≈27 est. | ≈1 in 1.4M | — | Chef | 29 |
| ES Spain | ≈27 est. | ≈1 in 1.8M | 6 | — | 11 |
| SG Singapore | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 398K | — | Chef | 8 |
| NL Netherlands | 14 | 1 in 1.2M | 14 | Chef | 6 |
| BE Belgium | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | 28 | — | 8 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 582K | — | Chef | 3 |
| GY Guyana | 1 | 1 in 750K | 1 | — | — |
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: Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Chëf mean, and where does it come from?
- head, leader, boss Recorded by A Frequency Dictionary of German.
- Is Chëf a male or female name?
- Chëf 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 Chëf have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 316 people named Chëf in the United States, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled chef.
- How common is the name Chëf?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 14 people named Chëf, about 1 in 1.2 million residents.
What do you want to know about Chëf?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ch%C3%ABfThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Chëf”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.