Chefia

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Chefia is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Tunisia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: leadership, command.

rarermore common
  • TNTunisia≈1 in 39K(inferred from the name graph)
  • FRFrance≈1 in 2M

carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Tunisia (inferred from the name graph)

≈300 people, est.

Sources
37 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 39K (inferred from the name graph)

Tunisia, est.

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:

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(measured from records)

leadership, command

Sources 1

  • A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Chefia 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 Chefia is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
TN Tunisia≈300 est.≈1 in 39KChefia3
FR France≈33 est.≈1 in 2MChefia37

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.

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)

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

  • Arabic given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Tunisia

    Also written Chêfia, Çhéfîà, Chèfia, Chéfia

10 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Chefia is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Portuguese, leadership, command

    as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese

  • In Portuguese, chiefdom, leadership, government

    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.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Chefia 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

What does the name Chefia mean, and where does it come from?
leadership, command Recorded by A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese.
Is Chefia a male or female name?
Chefia 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 Chefia have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 303 people named Chefia in Tunisia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled chefia.
How common is the name Chefia?
Mondonomo estimates about 300 people in Tunisia have Chefia as their first given name, about 1 in 39 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.

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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, “Chefia”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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