Chesse
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Obsolete spelling of chess
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: INSEE, 1991
Chesse is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 200K(inferred from the name graph)
- ARArgentina1 in 1.6M
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 5.1Mfew records
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.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 114 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 197K (inferred from the name graph)
≈340 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Chessé in ES Spain.
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)Obsolete spelling of chess.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world
(measured from records)Chesse 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 197K | 71 | Chesse | 114 |
| US United States | ≈35 est. | ≈1 in 9.6M | listed | Chesse | 17 |
| AR Argentina | 29 | 1 in 1.6M | 29 | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 5.1M | — | Chesse | 8 |
| ES Spain | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 6M | — | Chessé | 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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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)Chesse is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In enm, alternative form of ches
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)4 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 94 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 71 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 70 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 67 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 67 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 61 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 60 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 55 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 48 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 47 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 34 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 29 | — |
Reference works 1
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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
- What does the name Chesse mean, and where does it come from?
- Obsolete spelling of chess. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Chesse?
- In the etymology graph, Chess is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Chesse have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 344 people named Chesse in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled chesse.
- How common is the name Chesse?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 29 people named Chesse, about 1 in 1.6 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/chesseThe 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, “Chesse”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.