Chol

given name · English · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Chol is a given name, most frequently recorded in North Korea, where it is the 9th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Korean, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Abbreviation of cholesterol.

rarermore common
  • KPNorth Korea1 in 125◐
  • USUnited States1 in 959K
  • SSSouth Sudan1 in 9.6K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈428 ●

across 5 countries

Sources
109 ●

16K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 464K ◐

Finland

Meaning & origin●

Abbreviation of cholesterol.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Chol is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
KP North Korea#91,065624 rec.—1Chol30
KR South Korea—765268 rec.——Chol61
AU Australia—6721.3K rec.—1Chol56
US United States—34711K rec.1 in 959K454Chol109
KE Kenya—335453 rec.——Chol14
GB United Kingdom—221330 rec.——Chol23
CA Canada—138205 rec.—1Chol16
TH Thailand—11175 rec.——Chol32
CN China—7311 rec.——Chol12
DE Germany—6494 rec.——Chol19
PH Philippines—5875 rec.——Chol9
RU Russia—5041 rec.——Chol8

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English7.1K45%
  • Korean4.1K26%
  • Swahili8856%
  • Spanish6534%
  • 5714%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English7,11245%
Korean4,10126%
Swahili8856%
Spanish6534%
5714%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Chol is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate given name976 records spelled Chol3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, South Sudan, United Kingdom

    Also written Chŏ̕l, Chŏl

  • Hindi given name318 records spelled Chol3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Chơl

  • Ukrainian surname167 records spelled Chol9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ukraine, Russia, Uzbekistan, Algeria

    Languages: Ukrainian, Russian

    Also written Чол, Чоль, Чхоль

37 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Chol is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Irish, lenited form of col

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In grt, chance

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Breton, coquin

    as a wordDeshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)

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●

0204060801900192019401960198075 · 1951

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Chol in INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000), France, 1891–1991
Yearrecords
189145
190156
191147
192159
193149
194158
195175
196171
197166
198159
199152

FR INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) — 11 years between 1891–1991. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1970198019902000韓哲, b. 1973Na Chul, b. 1986Hong Chul, b. 1990Chol Pak, b. 1990DinDin, b. 1991
  • 韓哲b. 1973JPnot in their usual nameKorean Japanese impresario and television producer
  • Na Chulb. 1986KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actor (1986-2023)
  • Hong Chulb. 1990KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean footballer
  • Chol Pakb. 1990KPNorth Korean athletics competitor
  • DinDinb. 1991KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean singer
  • Ki Ch'ŏlnot in their usual nameKorea politician
  • Cheol E HanUSnot in their usual nameresearcher
  • Chul ChungKRnot in their usual nameastronomer ORCID ID = 0000-0001-6812-4542
  • Chul Hwan BangKRnot in their usual nameresearcher
  • Chul Ho JangKRnot in their usual nameresearcher

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 27 sources across 14 countries.

Official registers attesting Chol
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020454#49,914
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010384#53,802
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020347#23,266
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000174#96,918
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202075#23,266
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)195175—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)196171—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)197166—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)198159—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)192159—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)194158—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)190156—

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia given-name 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 · 50 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Chol?
We estimate roughly 428 people bear Chol (counting its spellings and scripts) across 5 countries in our records.
In which country does Chol have the most bearers?
Chol is most frequently recorded in North Korea, where it is most often spelled chol.
How common is Chol compared with other names?
In North Korea, Chol is the 9th most common given name of 2,373 given names recorded there.
Is Chol a male or female name?
Chol 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 Chol mean?
Recorded meaning: Abbreviation of cholesterol.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

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, “Chol” — the 9th most common given name in North Korea. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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