girls:
364 births since 1969
#5352 (6th percentile)
boys:
2.1k births since 1968
#2753 (40th percentile)
overall:
2.4k births since 1968
#5383 (30th percentile)
The name Che is the #5,383 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,444 recorded births since 1968. This represents the 30.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 30.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,753 (39.9% percentile) for all time with 2,080 births since 1968. For girls, it ranks #5,352 (6.3% percentile) for all time with 364 births since 1969.
Che first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1968 (1968 for boys and 1969 for girls).
The name Che has been given predominantly to boys, with 85.1% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Che were boys.
For boys, Che reached its peak popularity in 1974, achieving the 13.7% percentile (ranked #564) with 58 births per million. The name was most common in 1974, with 58 births per million (ranked 13.7% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Che ranks #908 for boys (0.3% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 7.6% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Che reached its peak popularity in 1969, achieving the 1.8% percentile (ranked #749) with 11 births per million. The name was most common in 1974, with 11 births per million (ranked 1.7% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2011.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Che".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Che. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 78.4% confident that Che is pronounced as chay, which has 1 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is chee, at 21.6% confidence, with 1 syllables.
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