Cheche
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Cheche is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country. In English, recorded as A piece of clothing used commonly in hot deserts to protect oneself from the sun or sandstorms.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 103K(inferred from the name graph)
- COColombia≈1 in 194K
- CLChile≈1 in 275K
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 29 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 103K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,100 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
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Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
How Cheche is read(measured from records)
Cheche is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish36%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Cheche in Spanish.
- English20%
A piece of clothing used commonly in hot deserts to protect oneself from the sun or sandstorms.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Swahili15%
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as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Cheche 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 103K | listed | Cheche | 29 |
| CO Colombia | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 194K | — | Cheche | 9 |
| KE Kenya | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 390K | listed | — | 1 |
| US United States | ≈99 est. | ≈1 in 3.4M | listed | Cheche | 20 |
| CL Chile | ≈66 est. | ≈1 in 275K | — | Cheche | 6 |
| DO Dominican Republic | ≈21 est. | ≈1 in 505K | — | Cheche | 6 |
| CR Costa Rica | 1 | 1 in 5.1M | 1 | — | 4 |
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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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)
Cheche is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
small thing
as a nameWhats in a name = Unaitwaje a Swahili book of names
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as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
In Cebuano, a diminutive of the female given name Cheryl
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In arn, maternal grandfather
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)
- Winnie ChecheKEclimate activist, volunteer, communications manager
- Cheche WinnieKEconservationist, environmental blogger, and climate activist
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)
Attested in 12 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- Where does the name Cheche come from?
- spark Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What does the name Cheche mean?
- In English, A piece of clothing used commonly in hot deserts to protect oneself from the sun or sandstorms.
- Is Cheche a male or female name?
- Cheche 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 Cheche have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.1 thousand people named Cheche in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cheche.
- How common is the name Cheche?
- In Costa Rica, the national register counted 1 people named Cheche, about 1 in 5.1 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/checheThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Cheche”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.