חן
given name · Hebrew script
Meaning: charm, grace, likeability
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
חן is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Hebrew script, with more bearers in Israel than in any other country.
- ILIsrael≈1 in 520(inferred from the name graph)
- MAMorocco≈1 in 760Kfew records
- BEBelgium≈1 in 920K
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 חן 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.
- Israel (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 139 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 521 (inferred from the name graph)
≈17,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Israel, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Chen 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)charm, grace, likeability
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)חן 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IL Israel | #127 | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 521 | 12K | חן | 113 |
| US United States | — | 6,337as Chen | 1 in 52K | 234K | Chen | 139 |
| ET Ethiopia | — | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 41K | — | חן | 2 |
| BR Brazil | — | 952as Chen | 1 in 222K | 1.1K | חן | 3 |
| ES Spain | — | 259as Chen | 1 in 193K | 26K | — | 8 |
| PL Poland | — | 229as Chen | 1 in 167K | 1.2K | — | 2 |
| DK Denmark | — | 66as Chen | 1 in 89K | 1.2K | — | 3 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API). 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)חן 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 Yiddish, grace, charm, appeal
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)- Chen Kugelb. 1962ILphysician from Israel
- Hen Lippinb. 1965ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli basketball player (born 1965)
- Sagol 59b. 1968ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli musician
- Chen Arielib. 1976ILIsraeli politician and social activist
- Chen Reissb. 1978ILIsraeli singer
- Chen Pomeranzb. 1984DEGerman-Israeli handball player
- Hen Azrielb. 1988ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli footballer
- Chen Aharonib. 1990ILIsraeli pop singer
- Chen Amsalemb. 1991ILIsraeli actress
- Chen AlonILIsraeli lecturer and 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).
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)5 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IL Israel | CBS Israel — Names given to babies (1949–present) | — | 9 | — |
| IL Israel | CBS Israel — Names given to babies (1949–present) | — | 8 | — |
| IL Israel | data.gov.il — First names in the population register | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Israel CBS babynamesIL (Hebrew-script given names × year × sex × sector)2024
- 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
- What does the name חן mean, and where does it come from?
- charm, grace, likeability Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is חן a male or female name?
- חן 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 חן have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 17 thousand people named חן in Israel, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled חן.
- How common is the name חן?
- In the United States, the national register counted 6,337 people named Chen in 2020, about 1 in 52 thousand residents.
- How common is חן compared with other names?
- In Israel, חן is the 127th most common given name of 107,303 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%D7%97%D7%9FThe 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, “חן” — the 127th most common given name in Israel. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.