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
Chetan through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 478
- 478 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2012
- 21 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #12,392 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −33%
- Easing
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 12,392 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 21 in 2012. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 2,066 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.
Chetan’s family of names
In English usage, Chetan has a conventional equivalent in the Hindi form चेतन.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
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.
People named Chetan
- Chetan AnandHindi film producer, screenwriter and director (1915–1997)
- Chetan Chauhancricketer and politician from India (1947-2020)
- Chetan Anandbadminton playerborn 1980
- Chetan KumarIndian actor, social activistborn 1983
- Black HawkSans Arc Lakota ledger artist (1832-1890)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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