Chet
A boys’ name of Old English origin, meaning camp; diminutive of Chester.
Chet by the numbers
In 2025, 5 babies in England and Wales were named Chet. In the US, 37 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
It is used at about the same rate on both sides of the Atlantic.
Its American peak was 166 babies in 1963, so it is a 1960s name that has since fallen a long way.
Other names that come from Chester
Like Chet, each of these traces back to Chester: a form of it, a name built from it, or a son or daughter of it. Not always the same sex.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Chet. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
Names about as common as Chet
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