girls:
80 births since 1971
#5636 (1st percentile)
boys:
15 births since 1977
#4571 (0th percentile)
overall:
95 births since 1971
#7644 (1st percentile)
The name Chea is the #7,644 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 95 recorded births since 1971. This represents the 1.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.2% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,636 (1.4% percentile) for all time with 80 births since 1971. For boys, it ranks #4,571 (0.3% percentile) for all time with 15 births since 1977.
Chea first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1971 (1971 for girls and 1977 for boys). Birth data for Chea is available in 16 out of the 34 years between 1971 and 2004 (13 years for girls and 3 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Chea has been given predominantly to girls, with 84.2% of all recorded births being female. In 2004, 100.0% of babies named Chea were girls.
For girls, Chea reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 0.7% percentile (ranked #819) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1987, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2004.
For boys, Chea reached its peak popularity in 1977, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #674) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1977, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1995.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Chea".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Chea. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 39.5% confident that Chea is pronounced as CHEE-uh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is chee, at 20.9% confidence, with 1 syllables.
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