Chee Surname
Approximately 46,776 people bear this surname
Chee Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Malaysia | 28,657 | 1:1,029 | 140 |
| Singapore | 5,705 | 1:965 | 141 |
| United States | 4,925 | 1:73,596 | 8,483 |
| Australia | 991 | 1:27,241 | 3,702 |
| Thailand | 904 | 1:78,140 | 10,439 |
| Saudi Arabia | 716 | 1:43,095 | 6,100 |
| Canada | 623 | 1:59,142 | 6,977 |
| Brunei | 556 | 1:753 | 148 |
| Hong Kong | 450 | 1:16,301 | 397 |
| Philippines | 402 | 1:251,836 | 37,608 |
| Pakistan | 393 | 1:454,565 | 8,136 |
| England | 269 | 1:207,130 | 17,888 |
| Mexico | 247 | 1:502,535 | 8,996 |
| China | 200 | 1:6,836,608 | 513 |
| New Zealand | 200 | 1:22,642 | 3,959 |
| Belize | 161 | 1:2,208 | 486 |
| United Arab Emirates | 157 | 1:58,358 | 5,656 |
| Papua New Guinea | 144 | 1:56,623 | 7,213 |
| Japan | 117 | 1:1,092,686 | 20,942 |
| Qatar | 109 | 1:21,633 | 2,325 |
| Brazil | 105 | 1:2,038,803 | 64,511 |
| Suriname | 70 | 1:7,895 | 1,936 |
| Indonesia | 50 | 1:2,644,984 | 153,918 |
| South Korea | 46 | 1:1,113,919 | 338 |
| Argentina | 43 | 1:994,033 | 62,207 |
| Dominican Republic | 39 | 1:267,511 | 9,432 |
| Mauritius | 37 | 1:34,957 | 6,870 |
| Netherlands | 33 | 1:511,733 | 48,115 |
| Germany | 32 | 1:2,515,796 | 126,826 |
| Taiwan | 32 | 1:732,648 | 5,233 |
| Portugal | 28 | 1:372,080 | 12,265 |
| India | 27 | 1:28,409,829 | 361,298 |
| Russia | 25 | 1:5,764,922 | 242,644 |
| Nicaragua | 22 | 1:273,686 | 2,870 |
| Switzerland | 21 | 1:391,091 | 29,271 |
| Vietnam | 20 | 1:4,632,303 | 2,388 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 20 | 1:68,199 | 5,276 |
| Liberia | 19 | 1:232,028 | 14,625 |
| Sweden | 18 | 1:547,042 | 39,827 |
| Peru | 17 | 1:1,869,654 | 24,503 |
| France | 14 | 1:4,744,480 | 251,814 |
| Denmark | 13 | 1:434,209 | 28,556 |
| Cameroon | 12 | 1:1,730,756 | 92,157 |
| Panama | 10 | 1:391,226 | 8,067 |
| Solomon Islands | 9 | 1:64,448 | 12,261 |
| Scotland | 8 | 1:669,227 | 23,443 |
| Cambodia | 8 | 1:1,935,893 | 7,100 |
| Marshall Islands | 8 | 1:6,478 | 1,058 |
| Bahamas | 4 | 1:97,938 | 1,027 |
| Guyana | 4 | 1:190,555 | 9,777 |
| Myanmar | 4 | 1:12,984,496 | 1,309 |
| Macau | 4 | 1:150,408 | 604 |
| Fiji | 4 | 1:223,598 | 2,635 |
| Norway | 3 | 1:1,714,095 | 79,528 |
| Belgium | 2 | 1:5,748,322 | 130,559 |
| Barbados | 2 | 1:143,724 | 1,981 |
| Luxembourg | 2 | 1:290,271 | 8,611 |
| Wales | 2 | 1:1,547,266 | 39,871 |
| Ireland | 2 | 1:2,354,470 | 19,715 |
| Algeria | 1 | 1:38,631,551 | 130,422 |
| Nepal | 1 | 1:28,480,956 | 22,413 |
| Uganda | 1 | 1:39,039,279 | 258,887 |
| Northern Ireland | 1 | 1:1,845,036 | 20,648 |
| Afghanistan | 1 | 1:32,153,183 | 60,828 |
| Venezuela | 1 | 1:30,204,077 | 85,459 |
| Turkey | 1 | 1:77,821,422 | 191,047 |
| Honduras | 1 | 1:8,816,442 | 9,272 |
| Azerbaijan | 1 | 1:9,649,122 | 47,873 |
| Italy | 1 | 1:61,156,688 | 199,583 |
| Greece | 1 | 1:11,079,790 | 145,225 |
| Syria | 1 | 1:19,301,022 | 22,457 |
| Jamaica | 1 | 1:2,869,947 | 13,896 |
| Finland | 1 | 1:5,496,702 | 84,025 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| Sri Lanka | 1 | 1:20,808,560 | 18,521 |
| Spain | 1 | 1:46,752,036 | 156,870 |
| Bahrain | 1 | 1:1,348,608 | 10,432 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
| Kuwait | 1 | 1:3,800,694 | 27,187 |
| Seychelles | 1 | 1:92,393 | 1,532 |
| Laos | 1 | 1:6,588,323 | 1,961 |
| Belarus | 1 | 1:9,501,059 | 159,228 |
| Samoa | 1 | 1:193,808 | 1,089 |
| Poland | 1 | 1:38,008,749 | 231,653 |
| Ecuador | 1 | 1:15,905,846 | 50,210 |
| Moldova | 1 | 1:3,561,368 | 78,271 |
| Colombia | 1 | 1:47,774,072 | 44,230 |
| Oman | 1 | 1:3,687,971 | 14,390 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
| Mozambique | 1 | 1:27,261,569 | 7,432 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 141 | 1:356,161 | 27,153 |
The alternate forms: Chée (1) are calculated separately.
Chee (200,120) may also be a first name.
Chee Demographics
Average Male Chee Height
172.69 cm
Sample is predominantly from Anglosphere countries
Chee Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Chee Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Chee (Russian: Чее) is most common in Malaysia. It may be rendered in the variant forms: Chée. For other possible spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Chee? popularity and diffusion
The last name Chee is the 12,000th most frequent family name world-wide It is held by approximately 1 in 155,797 people. Chee occurs predominantly in Asia, where 82 percent of Chee live; 78 percent live in Southeast Asia and 63 percent live in Malayo-Arabic Southeast Asia. Chee is also the 5,218th most widespread forename globally, borne by 200,120 people.
The surname is most widespread in Malaysia, where it is held by 28,657 people, or 1 in 1,029. In Malaysia it is most numerous in: Selangor, where 29 percent live, Johor, where 13 percent live and Sabah, where 11 percent live. Not including Malaysia this last name is found in 89 countries. It is also common in Singapore, where 12 percent live and The United States, where 11 percent live.
Chee Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The prevalency of Chee has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people bearing the Chee last name grew 3,493 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Chee Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those bearing the Chee surname are 5.33% more likely to be registered Democrats than the national average, with 58.56% registered to vote for the party.
The amount Chee earn in different countries varies greatly. In Peru they earn 114.72% more than the national average, earning S/. 41,623 per year; in United States they earn 0.36% more than the national average, earning $43,305 USD per year and in Canada they earn 15.02% more than the national average, earning $57,143 CAD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Chee Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Chee in the Russian language | ||
| Чее | cee | - |
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Footnotes
- Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
- Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
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- Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
- Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Chee
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