Chez

org · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Chez is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country. In French, recorded as to, at, in or into the home, office, etc. of.

rarermore common
  • FRFrance≈1 in 160K(inferred from the name graph)
  • USUnited States1 in 1.1M
  • TNTunisia≈1 in 72K

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.

France (inferred from the name graph)

≈420 people, est.

Sources
171 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 72K (inferred from the name graph)

Tunisia, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.

How Chez is read(measured from records)

Chez is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • French68%

    to, at, in or into the home, office, etc. of

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • English24%

    At the home of.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Chez 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.

Where Chez is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
FR France≈420 est.≈1 in 160K—Chez152
MA Morocco≈360 est.≈1 in 100K—Chez6
US United States2921 in 1.1M275Chez171
TN Tunisia≈160 est.≈1 in 72K—Chez2
GB United Kingdom≈130 est.≈1 in 493K—Chez68
AU Australia≈120 est.≈1 in 221K1Chez50
CH Switzerland≈38 est.≈1 in 219K—Chez4

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; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Chez is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Portuguese name9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

    Also written Chéz, Çhëz, Chěz, Chêz, Chëz

  • German name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Switzerland, Belgium

    Also written Chež, Çhëz

45 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1700180019002000Charles-Édouard Chaise, b. 1759Sereno Chaise, b. 1928Laureline Chaise, b. 1989

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 14 sources across 7 countries.

Official registers attesting Chez
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010275#71,042
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020268#77,203
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000256#71,143
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020184#30,018
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020108#30,018
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)198215—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)199011—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)198910—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)198610—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)19898—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)19887—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)19877—

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

What does the name Chez mean?
In French, to, at, in or into the home, office, etc. of
In which country does Chez have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 424 people named Chez in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled chez.
How common is the name Chez?
In the United States, the national register counted 292 people named Chez in 2020, about 1 in 1.1 million residents.

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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, “Chez”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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