Given name & surname
Cheo
Cheo is a surname from Hakka. It is used in English and Spanish.
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1972. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Cheo through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 113
- 113 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1974
- 12 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 5 in 2021. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 12 in 1974. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 219 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Cheo’s family of names
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Cheo
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
Similar names
If you love Cheo, these share its style, era, origin or sound, from outside its own family.
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“from the valley between the hills” · “from the secluded narrow valley”
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Barry
“a fair-haired man”
>99% boys