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ChenIn Hebrew: חן · meaning, pronunciation and popularity in Israel
With vowel points: חֵןRomanization: chén
Chen (Hebrew: חן) is a unisex name of Hebrew origin. 19,237 people born in Israel between 1949 and 2024 have it today, according to Israel's Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). In 2024 it was given to 26 girls and ranked #426. Its peak year was 1989, with 967 babies.
- People in Israel
- 19,237
- born 1949–2024
- Babies in 2024
- 26
- rank #426
- Peak year
- 1989
- 967 babies
- USA
- —
- not in the SSA list
Writing and saying Chen
In Hebrew letters the name is חן, read right to left. Chen is the Latin spelling recorded by our review; families choose their own spelling in passports, so you may also meet other forms. Wiktionary romanizes it as "chén" (the accent marks the stressed syllable).
Meaning and origin
- a male or female given name
Quoted from English Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0), unchanged.
Chen by year in Israel
How many girls out of every 10,000 born each year have the name. For Israel it counts the people born that year who carry the name today (the CBS counts residents by year of birth, not birth registrations).
per 10,000 babies of the same sex
Related Israeli names
Spelling variants and names that look or sound close in Hebrew.
Questions about Chen
How do you write Chen in Hebrew?
Chen is written חן in Hebrew (with vowel points: חֵן). Hebrew is read right to left. A dictionary romanization is "chén".
How many people in Israel are named Chen?
19,237 people born between 1949 and 2024 carry the name חן: 13,458 women and 5,779 men. The count comes from the CBS table of current first names by year of birth; years with fewer than 5 people are not published.
Is Chen a boy's or a girl's name?
Both. In Israel 70% of the people named חן are women and 30% are men, so we count it as unisex (our threshold: at least 20% of the less common sex).
What does the name Chen mean?
English Wiktionary describes it as: "a male or female given name"
Sources
Israel: Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), current first names of people born 1949–2024 by sex, population group and year of birth, processed 2026-09-27. CBS publications.