Chelh
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Chelh is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Morocco than in any other country.
- MAMorocco≈1 in 40K(inferred from the name graph)
- ESSpain1 in 248K
- FRFrance≈1 in 840K
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.
- Morocco (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 74 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 40K (inferred from the name graph)
≈880 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Morocco, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Chelh 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MA Morocco | ≈880 est. | ≈1 in 40K | — | Chelh | 16 |
| ES Spain | 202 | 1 in 248K | 202 | Chelh | 9 |
| FR France | ≈81 est. | ≈1 in 840K | — | Chelh | 74 |
| BE Belgium | 12 | 1 in 977K | 12 | Chelh | 2 |
| NL Netherlands | 7 | 1 in 2.5M | 7 | Chelh | 1 |
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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). 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)
Attested in 5 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 202 | #16,460 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 202 | #16,398 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 12 | #65,355 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 7 | #70,546 |
Reference works 1
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
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
- In which country does Chelh have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 884 people named Chelh in Morocco, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled chelh.
- How common is the name Chelh?
- In Spain, the national register counted 202 people named Chelh, about 1 in 248 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/chelhThe 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, “Chelh”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.