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Chet

#2,186 in 2025Boys' name

Camp, through Chester

Chet has been given to 6,180 babies in the U.S. since 1909. In 2025 it ranked #2,186 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1963, with 164 recorded.

Babies named Chet, 2025

1 in 51,000

Chet over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Chet: meaning, origin, and history

Camp, through Chester

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Chet means

Chet belongs to the name family reached through Chet → Chester. Its meaning is “camp”.

Origin, language, and formation

Chet is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Chester.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Chet is pronounced /t͡ʃɛt/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6,180 boys were recorded with the name Chet between 1909 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 164 in 1963; its best national rank was #612 in 1963.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,697 in 2020 to #2,186 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #3,034 in 2015 to #2,186 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Chet?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 51,000
65 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 26,300
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,186
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
35,353 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Chet sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 35,353 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Chet. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Chets were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Chet was born before 1976 — so the typical Chet is around 49 today.

Median birth year
1976
About 49 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
19.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
18.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
5,780
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Choose a decade

1960s — 19.9% of all recorded uses (1,232).

Is Chet rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−85
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+511
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+848
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.71×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
39.6%
Peak was 1963 (164)
Years since peak
62
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#612
1963

Spellings of Chet

Chet is not the most common spelling — Chad is, with 48.2% against Chet's 1.2%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Chet is used

Across 2016–2025, Chet was most concentrated in Montana — about 1 in 5,882 boys, against 1 in 68,219 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in 100,000).

117 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Montana1 in 5,882
  2. 2Iowa1 in 25,000
  3. 3Missouri1 in 25,000
  4. 4Wisconsin1 in 25,000
  5. 5Oklahoma1 in 33,333
  6. 6Michigan1 in 50,000
  7. 7Minnesota1 in 50,000
  8. 8Florida1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Chet around the world

Where Chet ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2006–2025
    #3,684
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1992–2024
    #1,964
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1955–2013
    #754
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Chet

People whose public names include Chet, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Chet in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Chet. Linked forms have their own page here.

ZeZé

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Chet by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,186
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 511
Best rank ever
#612
1963
Peak year
1963
164 that year
First recorded
1909
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
6,180
Count in 2025
65

Names similar to Chet

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

ChevyCheChengChesleyChettCheikhCheskyChetanCheeChestonCheskelRhetCherylCheyneChenCheickCheyenneChesterChezCheoCherCheyJaphetChevis

Names with a curve like Chet

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Chet, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

TadEdwardoAndreaBrittRichieReinaldoKraigWilfredoGreggoryBrienTimmothyKelley

Sibling names for Chet

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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