Che

Where Che comes from

Che hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1949
    Che Uda Che Nik born
    Malaysian politician
  2. 1951
    Che Rosli Che Mat born
    Malaysian politician
  3. 1968
    First appearance
    #1,836 among boys, 19 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  4. 1974
    Peak, #832
    94 babies named Che — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1981
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,899.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Che Gossett · writer and archivist
  • Che Rosli Che Mat · Malaysian politician, born 1951
  • Che Uda Che Nik · Malaysian politician, born 1949
  • Che Husna Azhari · Malaysian writer of literature, born 1955
  • Che Wilson · English footballer, born 1979

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.