Che is a first name for boys, occasionally also given to girls.
There’s a good chance that a boy named Che in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Che in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 boys is named Che by his parents. In the ranking of most common boys names in recent years, Che ranks at #4,467. That means there are 4,466 more common boys names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Che.
Che is a quite familiar phenomenon. Before 1900, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. It took a while, but then, unexpectedly, Che cried out for attention, reaching rank 702 in 1974. So, schoolkids of the late 19th century probably didn't have classmates named Che and it has never reached the top 100 list in our statistics, but for a while it became more and more fashionable in the last century, which makes Che really in tune with his generation.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Che was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
19 babies were named Che in 2022 - that's 1 in 8,496,105 newborn boys. With this number, the boys' name Che ranked 4,324 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which first records are available.
In not even one in five states you will find more than 4 men and boys with the name Che. This first name might not be completely unknown, but in the entire United States, there are about 658 Americans who bear this name. And these 658 men and boys named Che live in no more than 9 different states, including for example California, Illinois, Maryland, Michigan and New York. In the other 40 states, there are either none or less than a handful boys and men with this name (to explain: The official statistics provide the data per state only if at least five men with a specific name live in the same state. So, it’s quite possible that there are one or two states where someone with the name Che lives although the name is not listed in the official statistics. Should you be one of those rare people whose name is Che and you live outside the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics). The state with the most boys and men named Che relative to its male population is California. And even there, only one male in 45,115 would raise his hand if you asked, who is called Che.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter C is a frequent initial letter for boys’ names. This is because 5.2% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of boys' names, by the way, are J, A and D.
With only three letters, the name Che is obviously very short. In fact, only 1.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly three letters. Just 0.2% of all first names are even shorter and only have two letters, while nearly 99% of all boys’ and girls’ names use more than three letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
With 5.2% of all boys' names that begin with a C, this first letter is thus much more common than the average of all letters. And which boys’ name beginning with C do you think is the most common in the US? The answer is... Charles.
If your name is Che and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Che, you can simply say:
Cat
Hat
Elephant
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Che
Che
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
C
H
E
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
C
H
E
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Che sounds like this:
