Chí
loc · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Chí is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Vietnam than in any other country. Recorded meaning: will; resolve; volition; determination.
- VNVietnam≈1 in 2.5K(inferred from the name graph)
- SESweden1 in 19K
- USUnited States1 in 29K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Vietnam (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 214 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈39,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Vietnam, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Chi in VN Vietnam.
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)
will; resolve; volition; determination
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Chí 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.
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Chí is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Vietnamese, Han-Viet name element; from the naming poem for Thiệu Hóa quận vương, Gia Long’s 9th son.
as a nameTên Họ Người Việt Nam
à Chí B là đến tận nơi.
as a nameMẹo giải nghĩa từ Hán Việt và chữa lỗi chính tả
In kix, Be engaged in physical or mental activity in order to achieve a result; do work.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Irish, present indicative analytic of feic
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Chinese, Hanyu Pinyin reading of 倁
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Cao Zhib. 250not in their usual namecao Wei prince and Western Jin official (died 288)
- Empress Yang Zhib. 258not in their usual nameJin Dynasty empress
- Bing Zhib. 1886CNnot in their usual nameChinese zoologist
- Chi Haotianb. 1929CNformer Minister of National Defense of China
- Louise Chowb. 1943TWnot in their usual nameProfessor of biochemistry and molecular genetics
- Chi Shangbinb. 1949CNChinese footballer
- Shen Zhihuab. 1950CNnot in their usual nameChinese historian
- Chi Zijianb. 1964CNChinese novelist
- Chi Pengb. 1981CNChinese artist (born 1981)
- Feng Qib. 1981CNnot in their usual nameChinese footballer
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)
Attested in 4 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2026 | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Chí mean, and where does it come from?
- will; resolve; volition; determination Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Chí have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 39 thousand people named Chí in Vietnam, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled chi.
- How common is the name Chí?
- In the United States, the national register counted 11,341 people named Chí in 2020, about 1 in 29 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Chí?
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ch%C3%ADThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Chí”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.