Given name & surname
Chavez
“a dream maker”
Chavez is used as a given name and a surname. One Spanish interpretation is “a dream maker.”
Original SpanishChávez
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Spanish interpretation is “a dream maker.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Spanish.
How it developed
In Filipino usage, Chavez as a surname developed from Chaves.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1953. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Chavez through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 881
- 873 boys · 8 girls
- Most popular year
- 1992
- 60 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #12,385 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −31%
- Easing
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 12,385 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 60 in 1992. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 938 as a first name in 2020; 244,201 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Chavez’s family of names
In Filipino usage, Chavez as a surname developed from the Galician form Chaves. In English usage, Chavez as a surname was borrowed from the Spanish form Chávez. Chavez has a related form in Chaves.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Chavez has relatives in 5 languages. Lines run from its Spanish roots to each of them.
Spanishwhere Chavez comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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