Chimene
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/tʃimin/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Chimene is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Cameroon than in any other country.
- CMCameroon≈1 in 2.5K(inferred from the name graph)
- CDCongo - Kinshasa≈1 in 18K
- NLNetherlands1 in 28K
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.
- Cameroon (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 170 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈11,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Cameroon, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Chimène in CD Congo - Kinshasa.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Chimene 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CM Cameroon | #815 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.5K | — | Chimene | 3 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | — | ≈5,800 est. | ≈1 in 18K | 1 | Chimène | 3 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈630 est. | ≈1 in 340K | — | Chimene | 23 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 608 | 1 in 28K | 608 | Chimene | 15 |
| FR France | — | ≈540 est. | ≈1 in 126K | 510 | — | 1 |
| CF Central African Republic | — | ≈61 est. | ≈1 in 99K | 1 | — | — |
| GA Gabon | — | ≈51 est. | ≈1 in 43K | 12 | — | — |
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: Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Ministere de l'Interieur — 2025 candidate lists (local + legislative); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; ANE — Liste provisoire des candidats (legislatives & regionales 2025). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Chimène van Oosterhoutb. 1964NLDutch actor and presenter
- Chimene Diazb. 1970USCameron Diaz's sister
- Chimène Badib. 1982FRFrench singer
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 22 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2010 | 510 | #2,630 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 38 | #9,957 |
| GA Gabon | Ministere de l'Interieur — 2025 candidate lists (local + legislative) | 2025 | 12 | #84 |
| CF Central African Republic | ANE — Liste provisoire des candidats (legislatives & regionales 2025) | 2025 | 1 | #19 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Chimene?
- A machine transcription gives /tʃimin/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Chimene a male or female name?
- Chimene is a female 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 Chimene have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 11 thousand people named Chimene in Cameroon, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled chimene.
- How common is the name Chimene?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 608 people named Chimene, about 1 in 28 thousand residents.
- How common is Chimene compared with other names?
- In Cameroon, Chimene is the 815th most common given name of 9,064 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Chimene?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/chimeneThe 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, “Chimene” — the 815th most common given name in Cameroon. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.