Chëë
surname · Latin script
Chëë is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Malaysia it is the 60th most common given name. Recorded meaning: From łichííʼ (“red”), a commonly adopted surname when the BIA required Native Americans to take surnames for the purpose of official records.
- USUnited States1 in 203K(measured from records)
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 22M
- NLNetherlands1 in 132K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 316 (measured from records)
- 1 in 132K (inferred from the name graph)
1,638 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Chee in MY Malaysia, US United States, NL Netherlands.
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)From łichííʼ (“red”), a commonly adopted surname when the BIA required Native Americans to take surnames for the purpose of official records.
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Chëë 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 | — | 1,638 | 1 in 203K | 5K | Chee | 316 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 131 | 1 in 132K | 88 | Chee | 22 |
| SE Sweden | — | 50 | 1 in 204K | 50 | — | 11 |
| DK Denmark | — | 11 | 1 in 534K | 17 | — | — |
| PL Poland | — | 3 | 1 in 13M | 3 | — | 1 |
| MY Malaysia | #60 | ≈1 est. | ≈1 in 22M | — | Chee | 134 |
1,638 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Chëë mean, and where does it come from?
- From łichííʼ (“red”), a commonly adopted surname when the BIA required Native Americans to take surnames for the purpose of official records. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Chëë have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.6 thousand people named Chëë, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled chee.
- Where is Chëë most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Chëë is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 132 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Chëë?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,638 people named Chëë in 2020, about 1 in 203 thousand residents.
- How common is Chëë compared with other names?
- In Malaysia, Chëë is the 60th most common given name of 388,685 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Chëë?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ch%C3%AB%C3%ABThe 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, “Chëë” — the 60th most common given name in Malaysia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.