Che
Che is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 14 births. Its best rank was 833rd, in 1974.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 140.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 197494 births
- Best rank
- #833in 1974
- Since 1968
- 2,458people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,094 boys have been named Che in the United States since 1968, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1974, with 94 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1987, and the 1970s alone account for 36%. It has spent 7 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 364 girls have also been given it, 15% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
In 1974, its biggest year
Che was the 833rd most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1974 were Michael, Jason, Christopher, David and James. See all of 1974.
Names that rose and fell with Che
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Demondpeak 1974
- Damondpeak 1974
- Torrancepeak 1973
- Rahsaanpeak 1973
- Jasenpeak 1979
- Dedricpeak 1977
- Jimipeak 1971
- Heathpeak 1974
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.