Chee
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Synonym of mace (“old Chinese unit of weight”)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/t͡ʃəə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Chee is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Malaysia than in any other country, where it is the 26th most common given name.
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 325(inferred from the name graph)
- SGSingapore≈1 in 1K
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 5.4K
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.
- Malaysia (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 159 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 325 (inferred from the name graph)
≈100,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Malaysia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
Synonym of mace (“old Chinese unit of weight”).
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Chee 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MY Malaysia | #26 | ≈100,000 est. | ≈1 in 325 | — | Chee | 143 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈49,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.4K | — | Chee | 48 |
| CN China | — | ≈26,000 est. | ≈1 in 53K | — | Chee | 30 |
| SG Singapore | #145 | ≈6,000 est. | ≈1 in 1K | — | Chee | 135 |
| US United States | — | 1,638 | 1 in 203K | 5K | Chee | 159 |
| AO Angola | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Chee | 3 |
| HK Hong Kong | #780 | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 5.5K | — | Chee | 32 |
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. 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)
Chee is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In dag, 1 . green parrot 2. a roan horse 3. broken piece of earthen ware or calabash or piece of any material
as a wordDagbani Dictionary CD
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Feng Jib. 1033not in their usual nameSong dynasty person (CBDB = 11372)
- Deposed Crown Prince Yi Jib. 1598KRnot in their usual nameKorean Crown Prince
- Chee Choon Kengb. 1915MYbadminton player
- Chee Soob. 1919GBBritish writer (1919-1994)
- Chee Soon Juanb. 1962SGSingaporean politician
- Chee Kong Cheahb. 1966MYTV and film producer
- Jewnot in their usual namedesign curator
- Eun Ji ChungUSnot in their usual nameAmerican biomedical engineer
- Chee Yew WongSEresearcher
- Chee-Hoo LumSGSingaporean music educator
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 36 sources across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1K | #8,759 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 638 | #8,759 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1991 | 22 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1994 | 20 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1992 | 19 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1993 | 18 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1993 | 18 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2001 | 8 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1997 | 5 | — |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- What does the name Chee mean, and where does it come from?
- Synonym of mace (“old Chinese unit of weight”). Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Chee?
- A machine transcription gives /t͡ʃəə/ (IPA) for Malay.
- Is Chee a male or female name?
- Chee 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 Chee have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 101 thousand people named Chee in Malaysia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled chee.
- How common is the name Chee?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,638 people named Chee in 2020, about 1 in 203 thousand residents.
- How common is Chee compared with other names?
- In Malaysia, Chee is the 26th most common given name of 388,685 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Chee?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cheeThe 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, “Chee” — the 26th most common given name in Malaysia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.