Chehab
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʃhæb/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Chehab is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Lebanon than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 684K(measured from records)
- LBLebanon≈1 in 5.8K
- AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 37K
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.
- Lebanon (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 159 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈940 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Lebanon, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
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)
Chehab 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LB Lebanon | #475 | ≈940 est. | ≈1 in 5.8K | — | Chehab | 50 |
| US United States | — | 486 | 1 in 684K | 590 | Chehab | 159 |
| MA Morocco | — | ≈430 est. | ≈1 in 84K | — | Chehab | 17 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 37K | — | Chehab | 39 |
| FR France | — | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 256K | 33 | — | 2 |
| TN Tunisia | — | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 58K | — | Chehab | 11 |
| CY Cyprus | — | ≈28 est. | ≈1 in 45K | — | Chehab | 6 |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Khaled Chehabb. 1892LBPrime Minister of Lebanon
- Fouad Chehabb. 1902LBthird president of Lebanon (1902-1973)
- Maurice Chéhabb. 1904LBLebanese archaeologist (1904-1994)
- Mofeed Shihaabb. 1936EGnot in their usual nameEgyptian politician
- Diego Elíasb. 1996PEnot in their usual namePeruvian squash player
- Elzbieta Czekajska-ChehabPLPolish physician, researcher (radiology)
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 23 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 590 | #40,105 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 486 | #44,270 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 314 | #60,083 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 36 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 33 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 19 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 7 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 6 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 2 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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
- How do you pronounce Chehab?
- A machine transcription gives /ʃhæb/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Chehab have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 935 people named Chehab in Lebanon, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled chehab.
- How common is the name Chehab?
- In the United States, the national register counted 486 people named Chehab in 2010, about 1 in 684 thousand residents.
- How common is Chehab compared with other names?
- In Lebanon, Chehab is the 475th most common surname of 45,185 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Chehab?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/chehabThe 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, “Chehab” — the 475th most common surname in Lebanon. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.