Che

At the 2020 census, 3,255 Americans bore the surname Che — 9,550th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 91,800.

By the numbers

People: 3,255
Rank: 9,550th
How common: 1 in 91,800
Per 100,000: 1.1

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Che described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 74.2%
Black, not Hispanic 11.5%
Hispanic or Latino 7.4%
White, not Hispanic 4.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.2%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Che

Michael Che (born 1983)American comedian
Justin Che (born 2003)American soccer player

People named Che with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Che

Also a first name

Che has been given to 2,469 American babies as a first name since 1968, peaking in 1974. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.