Chết
given name · Latin script
Meaning: to die; to decease; to perish
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Chết is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 60K(measured from records)
- GYGuyana1 in 250K
- ISIceland1 in 351K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 21 (measured from records)
- 1 in 60K (inferred from the name graph)
5,555 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Chet 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)
to die; to decease; to perish
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Chết 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 | 5,555 | 1 in 60K | 5.5K | Chet | 21 |
| NL Netherlands | 25 | 1 in 691K | 25 | — | 1 |
| SE Sweden | 19 | 1 in 537K | 19 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 13 | 1 in 2.9M | 13 | — | — |
| GY Guyana | 3 | 1 in 250K | 3 | — | — |
| IS Iceland | 1 | 1 in 351K | 1 | — | — |
5,555 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; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)
Chết is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In tou, to die
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In tyj, seven
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Chết mean, and where does it come from?
- to die; to decease; to perish Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Chết a male or female name?
- Chết is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Chết have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 5.6 thousand people named Chết, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled chet.
- Where is Chết most common?
- Chết is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 60 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Chết?
- In the United States, the national register counted 5,555 people named Chết in 2020, about 1 in 60 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Chết?
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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%E1%BA%BFtThe 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, “Chết”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.