Chee
given name · Malay · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Chee is a given name, most frequently recorded in Malaysia, where it is the 29th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Malay and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Synonym of mace (“old Chinese unit of weight”).
- MYMalaysia1 in 583◐
- SGSingapore1 in 1.5K
- IDIndonesia1 in 35K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈1.1K ●
- 3 ●
- Sources
- 170 ●
- 1 in 196K ◐
across 4 countries
recorded for this name
139K records
Official registry-verified
Netherlands
Spellings & scripts●
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
Synonym of mace (“old Chinese unit of weight”).
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MY Malaysia | #29 | 111,380 | 111K rec. | — | — | Chee | 128 |
| SG Singapore | #86 | 7,072 | 7K rec. | — | — | Chee | 124 |
| ID Indonesia | — | 2,587 | 4.2K rec. | — | — | Chee | 45 |
| PH Philippines | — | 1,072 | 509 rec. | — | — | Chee | 18 |
| US United States | — | 1,000 | 11K rec. | 1 in 333K | 5K | Chee | 170 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 744 | 616 rec. | — | 3 | Chee | 63 |
| VN Vietnam | — | 720 | 99 rec. | — | — | Chee | 37 |
| TH Thailand | — | 505 | 471 rec. | — | — | Chee | 61 |
| HK Hong Kong | #478 | 353 | 259 rec. | — | — | Chee | 41 |
| MX Mexico | — | 215 | 875 rec. | — | — | Chee | 38 |
| CA Canada | — | 188 | 246 rec. | — | — | Chee | 41 |
| CN China | — | 178 | 93 rec. | — | — | Chee | 35 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Malay111K45%
- English82K33%
- English (Singapore)10K4%
- Indonesian8.4K3%
- Chinese5.2K2%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Malay | 110,927 | 45% |
| English | 82,469 | 33% |
| English (Singapore) | 10,133 | 4% |
| Indonesian | 8,392 | 3% |
| Chinese | 5,186 | 2% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Chee is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In dag, 1 . green parrot 2. a roan horse 3. broken piece of earthen ware or calabash or piece of any material
as a wordDagbani Dictionary CD
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1920 | 6 |
| 1921 | 9 |
| 1922 | 10 |
| 1923 | 6 |
| 1924 | 5 |
| 1925 | 5 |
| 1929 | 6 |
| 1931 | 8 |
| 1932 | 6 |
| 1933 | 7 |
| 1936 | 5 |
| 1937 | 5 |
| 1941 | 6 |
| 1944 | 5 |
| 1967 | 5 |
| 1974 | 5 |
| 1978 | 9 |
| 1979 | 9 |
| 1980 | 9 |
| 1981 | 14 |
| 1982 | 9 |
| 1983 | 8 |
| 1984 | 14 |
| 1985 | 7 |
| 1986 | 13 |
| 1987 | 11 |
| 1988 | 11 |
| 1989 | 17 |
| 1990 | 18 |
| 1991 | 22 |
| 1992 | 19 |
| 1993 | 18 |
| 1994 | 20 |
| 1995 | 15 |
| 1996 | 12 |
| 1997 | 9 |
| 1998 | 9 |
| 1999 | 9 |
| 2001 | 8 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 39 years between 1920–2001. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Feng Jib. 1033not in their usual nameSong dynasty person (CBDB = 11372)
- Deposed Crown Prince Yi Jib. 1598KRnot in their usual nameKorean Crown Prince
- Chee Choon Kengb. 1915MYbadminton player
- Chee Soob. 1919GBBritish writer (1919-1994)
- Chee Soon Juanb. 1962SGSingaporean politician
- Chee Kong Cheahb. 1966MYTV and film producer
- Jewnot in their usual namedesign curator
- Eun Ji ChungUSnot in their usual nameAmerican biomedical engineer
- Chee Yew WongSEresearcher
- Chee-Hoo LumSGSingaporean music educator
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 36 sources across 20 countries.
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 142 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Chee?
- We estimate roughly 1.1 thousand people bear Chee (counting its spellings and scripts) across 4 countries in our records.
- In which country does Chee have the most bearers?
- Chee is most frequently recorded in Malaysia, where it is most often spelled chee.
- How common is Chee compared with other names?
- In Malaysia, Chee is the 29th most common given name of 325,158 given names recorded there.
- Is Chee a male or female name?
- Chee is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Chee mean?
- Recorded meaning: Synonym of mace (“old Chinese unit of weight”).
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Chee” — the 29th most common given name in Malaysia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.