Chaire
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Obsolete spelling of chair
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/tʃaiɾe/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Chaire is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- ARArgentina1 in 1.7M(measured from records)
- FRFrance≈1 in 2.1M
- ESSpain1 in 3.6M
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.
- United States (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 44 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.7M (inferred from the name graph)
≈41 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Argentina
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Obsolete spelling of chair.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Chaire 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | ≈41 est. | ≈1 in 8.2M | listed | Chaire | 34 |
| FR France | ≈32 est. | ≈1 in 2.1M | 3 | — | — |
| AR Argentina | 27 | 1 in 1.7M | 27 | Chaire | 15 |
| ES Spain | 14 | 1 in 3.6M | 14 | — | 2 |
| IN India | 5 | 1 in 265M | 5 | — | 1 |
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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)
Chaire is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, pulpit
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In enm, alternative form of chayer
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In frm, chair (item of furniture)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In sga, lenited form of caire
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 6 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 27 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 14 | #101,339 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 11 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 9 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 9 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 6 | — |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 5 | #176,046 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 5 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 3 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 3 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 3 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 3 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Chaire mean, and where does it come from?
- Obsolete spelling of chair. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Chaire?
- A machine transcription gives /tʃaiɾe/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Chaire have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 41 people named Chaire in the United States, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled chaire.
- Where is Chaire most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Chaire is densest in Argentina — about 1 in 1.7 million people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Chaire?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 27 people named Chaire, about 1 in 1.7 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/chaireThe 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, “Chaire”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.