Chaâ

Name: Chaâ: recorded bearers, distribution and rank
Creator: Mondonomo
Published: 2026-10-10

surname · Latin script

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

Chaâ is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Algeria than in any other country.

rarermore common

FIFinland1 in 186K(measured from records)
BEBelgium1 in 837K
DZAlgeria≈1 in 1.1M

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.

: Algeria (inferred from the name graph)
Sources: 111 (measured from records)
: 1 in 186K (inferred from the name graph)

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Chaa

Locally spelled Chaa in DZ Algeria.

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)

Chaâ 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 Chaâ is recorded, by country
Country				Most common spelling	Sources
DZ Algeria	≈40 est.	≈1 in 1.1M	listed	Chaa	5
FI Finland	30	1 in 186K	30	—	—
BR Brazil	20	1 in 11M	20	—	—
ES Spain	15	1 in 3.3M	15	—	—
BE Belgium	14	1 in 837K	14	—	2

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: DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)

Chaâ is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

Arabic surname77 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Romania
Also written Chaa, Chàà, Çhàà, Chaà, Chäa

1 further group 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.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Chaâ under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Chaâ have the most bearers?: Mondonomo estimates about 40 people named Chaâ in Algeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled chaa.
Where is Chaâ most common?: Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Chaâ is densest in Finland — about 1 in 186 thousand people — even though Algeria holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Chaâ?: In Finland, the national register counted 30 people named Chaâ, about 1 in 186 thousand residents.

What do you want to know about Chaâ?

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Query this name via API

curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cha%C3%A2

The same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.

About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of 2026-10-10 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, “Chaâ”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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Spellings & scripts●(measured from records)