Chavée

surname · Latin script

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

rarermore common
  • BEBelgium1 in 63K(measured from records)
  • BRBrazil1 in 2.2M
  • FRFrance≈1 in 3.2M

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.

Belgium (measured from records)

186 people, 2008

Sources
42 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 63K (inferred from the name graph)

Belgium

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Chavee in BE Belgium, FR France, US United States.

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.

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Chavée 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 Chavée is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BE Belgium1861 in 63K191Chavee15
BR Brazil981 in 2.2M98——
FR France≈21 est.≈1 in 3.2M—Chavee42
US United States≈9 est.≈1 in 35M—Chavee27

186 people counted by Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register), 2008, counting the spelling chavée. 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: Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Statbel — Noms de famille (family names); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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)

Chavée is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Brazil, Mexico

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Chavee, Chaveê, Chávéé

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Chavee

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Chavee

3 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)

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 3 sources across 1 country.

Official registers attesting Chavée
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BE BelgiumStatbel — Noms de famille (family names)—191#9,444
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)2008186#9,082

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

In which country does Chavée have the most bearers?
In Belgium, the national register counted about 186 people named Chavée, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled chavee.
Where is Chavée most common?
Chavée is densest in Belgium, where the national register counts about 1 in 63 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Chavée?
In Belgium, the national register counted 186 people named Chavée in 2008, about 1 in 63 thousand 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, “Chavée”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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