Chēn

given name · Latin script

Chēn is a given name written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: From Mandarin 陳／陈 (Chén). Doublet of Tan, Chan, and Tran.

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

From Mandarin 陳／陈 (Chén). Doublet of Tan, Chan, and Tran.

Sources 4

  • DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
  • Wiktionary
  • Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
  • Schuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007)

Attested across 33 languages in the etymology graph.

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Notable people with this name(measured from records)

500100015002000Gao Chen, b. 513Wu Chen, b. 1428Wu Chen, b. 1430Deng Chen, b. 1447Chen Chen, b. 1477Zhao Chen, b. 1899Li Chen, b. 1963Song Chen, b. 1990Wang Chen, b. 1992

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)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Chēn 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 Chēn mean, and where does it come from?
From Mandarin 陳／陈 (Chén). Doublet of Tan, Chan, and Tran. Recorded by DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen and Wiktionary and 2 other sources.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

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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, “Chēn”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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