"Traditional English name"
The name Chief is commonly a male name from the "English" origin.
Chief is an English word meaning a leader, ruler or head of a group, borrowed through Old French chief from Latin caput, meaning head. Its use as a given name rests on the meaning of that vocabulary word rather than on an inherited personal-name tradition, and it is a word name in the same broad category as other English common words used as names. United States birth records show it in occasional use as a boy's given name beginning in 1919.
The pronunciation of Chief is CHEEF.
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