Chea


Chea is a surname in various cultures.

Origins

Chea may be a Cambodian surname. That surname is derived from the Chinese surname Xiè, specifically Southern Min pronunciations of that surname, e.g. Hokkien Chinese. Other spellings derived from Southern Min pronunciations of that Chinese surname include Chia and Cheah.
Chea may also be an alternative spelling of the Korean surname more commonly romanised as Chae.

Statistics

The 2000 South Korean Census found 119,251 people with the family name usually romanised as Chae. This surname is only rarely spelled as Chea; in a study based on year 2007 applications for South Korean passports, 87.8% of the applicants chose to spell this surname as Chae, and 7.5% as Chai, as compared to only 1.7% who chose the spelling Chea.
The 2010 United States Census found 4,492 people with the surname Chea, making it the 7,411th-most-common name in the country. This represented an increase from 3,404 in the 2000 Census. In both censuses, slightly more than four-fifth of the bearers of the surname identified as Asian, while the proportion of bearers who identified as black increased from 4.9% in the 2000 Census to 6.3% in the 2010 Census. Chea was the 359th-most-common surname among respondents to the 2000 Census who identified as Asian.

People

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