Chíno
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Chíno is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. Recorded meaning: from American Spanish chino, literally "toasted;" so called in reference to its usual color.
- PAPanama≈1 in 91K(inferred from the name graph)
- ESSpain≈1 in 470K
- USUnited States1 in 575K
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.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 184 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 91K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Panama, 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 Chino in US United States.
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)from American Spanish chino, literally "toasted;" so called in reference to its usual color.
Cited for this meaning 3
- Dizionario dei cognomi italiani
- Wiktionary
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Chíno 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4M | 5 | — | 7 |
| US United States | 579 | 1 in 575K | 1.8K | Chino | 184 |
| ES Spain | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 468K | 90 | — | 32 |
| IT Italy | ≈94 est. | ≈1 in 627K | listed | — | 11 |
| AR Argentina | ≈70 est. | ≈1 in 655K | 642 | — | 38 |
| PA Panama | ≈50 est. | ≈1 in 91K | 2 | — | 7 |
| BE Belgium | ≈19 est. | ≈1 in 611K | 1 | — | 5 |
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 2010; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Tribunal Electoral — Boletín, postulaciones for the 5 May 2024 general election; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Chíno mean, and where does it come from?
- from American Spanish chino, literally "toasted;" so called in reference to its usual color. Recorded by Dizionario dei cognomi italiani and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
- Is Chíno a male or female name?
- Chíno 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.
- Which countries have the most people named Chíno?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.0 thousand people named Chíno in India, more than in any other country we hold. After it come United States, Spain, Italy and Argentina; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Chíno?
- In the United States, the national register counted 579 people named Chíno in 2020, about 1 in 575 thousand residents.
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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%ADnoThe 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, “Chíno” — ranked 183803rd in India (Instate). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.