Çe

surname · Latin script

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

Çe is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: The name of the Latin-script letter Ç/ç.

rarermore common
  • BRBrazil1 in 185K(measured from records)
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 1.4M
  • CZCzechia1 in 1.8M

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.

Brazil (measured from records)

1,144 people

Sources
28 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 185K (inferred from the name graph)

Brazil

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

The name of the Latin-script letter Ç/ç.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Çe 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 Çe is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil1,1441 in 185K1.1K——
TR Türkiye≈33 est.≈1 in 2.5M—Çe28
AR Argentina151 in 3M15——
CH Switzerland61 in 1.4M6—1
CZ Czechia61 in 1.8M6——

1,144 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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)

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

  • English given name53 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Netherlands, Brazil, United States, Germany

    Languages: English, Dutch, German

    Also written Ce, Cé, C-E, Če, Cè

  • a separate name7 spellings in the group

    Also written Cê, Ce, Cē, Cé, Cè

  • French given name28 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Canada, Belgium, Algeria

    Also written Cé, Ce, C-E, Cé', C'É

  • Portuguese given name13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, Portugal, Netherlands, Italy

    Also written Ce, Cé, Cè, Cë, Čě

  • Spanish given name14 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Mexico, Chile, Spain, Colombia

    Also written Ce, Cé, Cè, Cë, C'È

  • a separate name11 spellings in the group

    Also written Cè, Cë, C̶e̶, Çé, Ce

9 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.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Çe 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 Çe mean, and where does it come from?
The name of the Latin-script letter Ç/ç. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Çe have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 1.1 thousand people named Çe, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Çe most common?
Çe is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 185 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Çe?
In Brazil, the national register counted 1,144 people named Çe, about 1 in 185 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, “Çe”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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