Given name & surname · also Navajo
Chee
Chee is a surname from Navajo, ultimately from Cantonese. It is used in English and Navajo.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Chee comes from Navajo, and ultimately from Cantonese.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1920. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Chee through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 534
- 325 boys · 209 girls
- Most popular year
- 1991
- 36 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 8 in 2001. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 22 in 1991. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,638 as a first name in 2020; 4,672 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.
People named Chee
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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