Chee

At the 2020 census, 4,672 Americans bore the surname Chee — 6,929th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 64,000.

By the numbers

People: 4,672
Rank: 6,929th
How common: 1 in 64,000
Per 100,000: 1.6

Where the name comes from

Borrowed from Navajo Chee, nan-hbl, yue, etc.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

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

American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 49.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 37.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 5.0%
Hispanic or Latino 4.0%
White, not Hispanic 3.9%
Black, not Hispanic 0.9%

Surnames like Chee

Also a first name

Chee has been given to 534 American babies as a first name since 1920, peaking in 1991. 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.