chey as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of chey

What is the meaning of the name chey ?

The baby name chey is a Unisex name , 1 syllables long and is pronounced /ʃeɪ/ (shay),/tʃeɪ/ (chay).

chey is English in Origin.

Chey is a modern English given name used primarily as a short form of Cheyenne, and sometimes adopted on its own. Cheyenne comes from the Dakota–Lakota exonym Šahíyena, often interpreted as “little Šahíya” and popularly glossed as “people of another language,” referring to the Tsitsistas (Cheyenne) nation. As a diminutive, Chey carries that association rather than a distinct lexical meaning.

Usage rose in the United States in the late 20th century alongside the popularity of Cheyenne, with Chey appearing in records from the 1980s onward; it remains unisex but skews feminine. Variants and related forms include Cheyenne, Cheyanne, Cheyann, Shyanne, and the spellings Cheye and Chei for the short form. It is sometimes conflated with Shay/Shai, which have separate Irish/Hebrew origins.