Cheme
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/tʃeme/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Cheme is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country. In Thailand it is the 74th most common surname.
- ECEcuador1 in 3K(measured from records)
- PKPakistan≈1 in 1.1Kas Cheema
- SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 7Kas Cheema
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Cheme itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 296 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈210,000 named Cheema, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Ecuador
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Cheema in US United States, PK Pakistan, SA Saudi Arabia and 3 more and เจ๊ะมะ in TH Thailand.
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
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)
Cheme 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | #203 | ≈210,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | 32 | Cheema | 103 |
| TH Thailand | #74 | ≈9,000 est. | ≈1 in 7.7K | #869,352 | เจ๊ะมะ | 73 |
| EC Ecuador | #813 | 5,729 | 1 in 3K | 5.7K | Cheme | 23 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #259 | ≈4,900 est. | ≈1 in 7K | — | Cheema | 29 |
| US United States | — | 2,525as Cheema | 1 in 132K | 3.7K | Cheema | 296 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #305 | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 5.2K | — | Cheema | 41 |
| OM Oman | #388 | ≈910 est. | ≈1 in 5.1K | — | Cheema | 14 |
| BH Bahrain | #345 | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 5.2K | — | Cheema | 13 |
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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — Form-33 List of Contesting Candidates, 2018 General Election; INEC — civil registry 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Cheme is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Romanian, third-person singular/plural present subjunctive of chema
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, A measure for liquids, the third part of a mystrum
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In gsw, to come
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- José Hurtadob. 2001ECnot in their usual nameEcuadorian footballer (2001)
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 9 sources across 6 countries.
Reference works 1
- 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
- How do you pronounce Cheme?
- A machine transcription gives /tʃeme/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Cheme have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 206 thousand people named Cheema in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Cheme most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Cheme is densest in Ecuador — about 1 in 3.0 thousand people — even though Pakistan holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Cheme?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted 5,729 people named Cheme in 2024, about 1 in 3.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Cheme compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Cheme is the 203rd most common surname of 51,489 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Cheme?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/chemeThe 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, “Cheme” — the 203rd most common surname in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.