Chat
given name · Latin script
Meaning: To be engaged in informal conversation
Used for both men and women· registers list it under both sexes; no split published
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 13 countries
/t͡ʃæt/(recorded in a dictionary) English · from Wiktionary
Chat 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. In Algeria it is the 100th most common given name.
- VNVietnam≈1 in 24K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 1.6Kas Chad
- CACanada≈1 in 1.6Kas Chad
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Chat itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- #597 (measured from records)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 582 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 24K (inferred from the name graph)
209,144 named Chad, 2020
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Vietnam, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Chad in US United States, GB United Kingdom, CA Canada and 4 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)To be engaged in informal conversation.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Chat 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 | #237 | 209,144as Chad | 1 in 1.6K | 209K | Chad | 582 |
| DZ Algeria | #100 | ≈27,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | listed | Chad | 13 |
| GB United Kingdom | #422 | ≈26,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.6K | 4 | Chad | 199 |
| CA Canada | #266 | ≈24,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | 2 | Chad | 269 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.8K | listed | Chad | 14 |
| VN Vietnam | #526 | ≈4,200 est. | ≈1 in 24K | — | Chat | 43 |
| SK Slovakia | #665 | ≈3,300 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | — | Chad | 9 |
| NZ New Zealand | #280 | ≈2,900 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | 16 | Chad | 85 |
209,144 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present). 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Chat is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, from English chat; talk
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
In Khmer, halo, circle around the sun or moon; parasol, umbrella. (S, chattra^ Pd^ chat/ija.^ (a,w,: ^j^*) parachute. ^ 911TflSIo[nCUnfe parachutist, airborne soldier. parasol. CijCfiat3[ri The sun has a halo around it. Lflftto[ri to use an umbrella
as a wordHeadley, Cambodian-English Dictionary, Volume I (ក-ភ)
In Spanish, chat (exchange of text or voice messages in real time through a computer network)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, A chat, exchange of text or voice messages in real time, notably by Internet
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, chat (informal conversation via computer)
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)- Wang Zhib. 1001not in their usual nameSong dynasty person (CBDB = 7079)
- Li Zhib. 1316not in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 103025
- 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
- Mu Zhinot in their usual nameTang dynasty person CBDB = 189557
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)24 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Kotík, Antonín, Naše příjmení (nové vydání, 1897)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Chat mean, and where does it come from?
- To be engaged in informal conversation. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Chat?
- In English /t͡ʃæt/ (Wiktionary).
- Is Chat a male or female name?
- Chat is used for both men and women. National registers that list it by sex count it under both: United States (Census Bureau, 2020). We don't publish a percentage split.
- In which country does Chat have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 209 thousand people named Chad, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Chat?
- In the United States, the national register counted 209,144 people named Chad in 2020, about 1 in 1.6 thousand residents.
- How common is Chat compared with other names?
- In the United States, Chat is the 237th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/chatThe 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, “Chat” — the 237th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.