Given name & surname
Chevrolet
Chevrolet is a surname from French. It is used in English and French.
Original Frenchcabriolet
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2017. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Chevrolet through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 5
- 5 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2017
- 5 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 2017. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Chevrolet’s family of names
In French usage, Chevrolet as a surname shares an earlier linguistic root with cabriolet.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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