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Around the globe, Cheo (Cheo
, 荷西
, เชว) is quite a rare male forename. The first name Cheo is habitual in Puerto Rico, where it is quite a rare boy's name, the Dominican Republic, and Cameroon. Measured by absolute frequency, it most frequently occurs in Cameroon, the Dominican Republic, and Colombia. Likewise, Cheo is the last name as well as the forename.
Cheo is also a name for the fictitious and mythical characters: José Gaspar , the apocryphal Spanish pirate; José Arcadio Buendía , character in One Hundred Years of Solitude; Gangbuster , the DC Comics character; José Luis Torrente , the fictional character and Don José , the operatic character in the opera Carmen by Georges Bizet; corporal of Dragoons, among other works.