Around the globe, เชือก (Lopes 
, เชือก 
, Ropee 
) is quite a rare gender-neutral first name. The first name เชือก is habitual in Cabo Verde, where it is quite a common unisex name, Luxembourg, and Angola, where it is quite a rare masculine name. Measured by absolute frequency, it is commonest in Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Portugal. Much more prevalently, เชือก is the last name as well as the forename.