Chín

given name · Latin script

Meaning: nine

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Chín is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 12K(measured from records)
  • GYGuyana1 in 4.9K
  • KNSt. Kitts & Nevis1 in 27K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

27,487 people, 2010

Sources
53 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 4.9K (inferred from the name graph)

Guyana

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Chin in US United States, NL Netherlands, IN India.

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)

nine

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Chín 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.

Where Chín is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States27,4871 in 12K28KChin53
BR Brazil4081 in 519K408—1
NL Netherlands3311 in 52K331Chin5
CR Costa Rica1591 in 32K159——
IN India1571 in 8.4M157Chin5
GY Guyana1531 in 4.9K153——
VC St. Vincent & Grenadines31 in 34K3——
KN St. Kitts & Nevis21 in 27K2——

27,487 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025); St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Chín is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname39 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Malaysia, Australia, Canada

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Chin, Chïn, Çhîñ, Chiñ, Ćhïń

  • Chinese surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Malaysia, United States, Taiwan, Hong Kong

    Also written Chin, Chîn, Ch'In, Chïn

  • Russian surname21 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in China, Russia, United States, Ukraine

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian

    Also written Цинь, Chin, Qin, Цінь, Chïn

  • Hindi surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Malaysia, United States, India, Singapore

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Chin, Çhìñ, Čhīn, Čhïn, Çhin

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Chìn, Chin

16 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Chín is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Vietnamese, number nine

    as a nameVietnamese Personal Names (CIA Foreign Names Studies, ch. 37)

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)

1400160018002000Pan Qin, b. 1424Ke Qin, b. 1619Hoàng Cầm, b. 1920Hoàng Cầm, b. 1922Xu Zhiqin, b. 1941Tsai Chin, b. 1957Kym Ng, b. 1967Liang Qin, b. 1972Ning Qin, b. 1992
  • Pan Qinb. 1424not in their usual nameMing dynasty politician
  • Ke Qinb. 1619not in their usual nameQing dynasty person CBDB=84750
  • Hoàng Cầmb. 1920VNnot in their usual nameColonel-general of People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN), Commander of PAVN forces in the Operation Attleboro 1966
  • Hoàng Cầmb. 1922VNnot in their usual nameVietnamese poet, writer and playwright (1922–2010)
  • Xu Zhiqinb. 1941CNnot in their usual nameChinese structural geologist
  • Tsai Chinb. 1957TWTaiwanese singer
  • Kym Ngb. 1967SGnot in their usual nameSingaporean actress and television presenter
  • Liang Qinb. 1972CNnot in their usual nameChinese fencer
  • Ning Qinb. 1992CNnot in their usual nameChinese freestyle skier
  • Yu Qinnot in their usual nameQing dynasty painter

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

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Chín under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Chín mean, and where does it come from?
nine Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
Is Chín a male or female name?
Chín is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
In which country does Chín have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 27 thousand people named Chín, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled chin.
Where is Chín most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Chín is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 4.9 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Chín?
In the United States, the national register counted 27,487 people named Chín in 2010, about 1 in 12 thousand residents.

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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, “Chín”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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