Chìn
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Chìn is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Malaysia than in any other country, where it is the 45th most common surname. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Chinese 陳／陈 (chén).
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 270(inferred from the name graph)
- SGSingapore≈1 in 800
- HKHong Kong≈1 in 1.2Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Malaysia (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 485 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 272 (inferred from the name graph)
≈120,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Malaysia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Chin in US United States, MY Malaysia, CA Canada and 3 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Borrowed from Chinese 陳／陈 (chén).
Cited for this meaning 4
- Dizionario dei cognomi italiani
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Chìn counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MY Malaysia | #45 | ≈120,000 est. | ≈1 in 272 | 875 | Chin | 169 |
| US United States | #992 | 27,487 | 1 in 12K | 28K | Chin | 485 |
| SG Singapore | #56 | ≈7,700 est. | ≈1 in 801 | — | Chin | 172 |
| HK Hong Kong | #226 | ≈6,100 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Chin | 83 |
| CA Canada | #623 | ≈5,700 est. | ≈1 in 6.7K | — | Chin | 226 |
| JM Jamaica | #96 | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | — | Chin | 38 |
| GY Guyana | — | 153 | 1 in 4.9K | 153 | — | 8 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; data.gov.my — Name Popularity Dashboard (JPN, by decade and ethnicity); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Jin Yinghuaib. 1533not in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 129596
- Jin Pengxiangb. 1990CNnot in their usual namefootballer
- Jin Gangnot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 198132
- Jin Xiannot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 129595
- Jin Weinot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 321541
- Jin Chaochennot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB=321542
- Jin Yinglongnot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 321545
- Jin Yingzhaonot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB=321546
- Jin Yinggengnot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 321547
- Jin Yinglinnot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 321548
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Chìn mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Chinese 陳／陈 (chén). Recorded by Dizionario dei cognomi italiani and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 2 other sources.
- Is Chìn a male or female name?
- Chìn is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Chìn have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 120 thousand people named Chìn in Malaysia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled chin.
- How common is the name Chìn?
- In the United States, the national register counted 27,487 people named Chìn in 2010, about 1 in 12 thousand residents.
- How common is Chìn compared with other names?
- In Malaysia, Chìn is the 45th most common surname of 291,743 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Chìn?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ch%C3%ACnThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Chìn” — the 45th most common surname in Malaysia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.