Chin-A

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Chin-A is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Surrey; Notts.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 84K(measured from records)
  • SESweden1 in 680K
  • GYGuyana1 in 750K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Chin-A itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

3,979 people, 2020

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
11 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 84K (inferred from the name graph)

United States

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

Chin-ALatin(measured from records)
중국Hangul(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled 중국 in KR South Korea.

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)

Main GB Location (1881): Surrey; Notts. probably a variant of Chiney, which is now practically extinct, through association with the country-name and encouraged by hypercorrection of the 18th–19th-century non-standard tendency to pronounce final /ə/ as /i/, as with Dickens’ character Sairey Gamp.

Sources 5

  • Dizionario dei cognomi italiani
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Wiktionary
  • Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
  • Dizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani

Where in the world(measured from records)

Chin-A 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 Chin-A is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States3,9791 in 84K3.8K—9
KR South Korea≈340 est.≈1 in 155K—중국11
BR Brazil431 in 4.9M1.2K——
SE Sweden151 in 680K15——
NL Netherlands71 in 2.5M7—1
GY Guyana11 in 750K1——

3,979 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Chin-A is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Chinese name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in China, Macao, Hong Kong, Taiwan

    Also written China

2 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1940196019802000Tae Jin Ah, b. 1953Kim Jin-a, b. 1963Kang Jin-a, b. 1981Bae Jin-ah, b. 1985Kang Jin-a, b. 1986Seo Jin‑ah, b. 1988Nana, b. 1991Won Jin-ah, b. 1991Lee Jin-ah, b. 1991Kwon Jin-ah, b. 1997
  • Tae Jin Ahb. 1953KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean singer
  • Kim Jin-ab. 1963KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actor
  • Kang Jin-ab. 1981KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean film director and screenwriter, born 1981
  • Bae Jin-ahb. 1985KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actress
  • Kang Jin-ab. 1986KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actress, born 1986
  • Seo Jin‑ahb. 1988KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean singer
  • Nanab. 1991KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean pop singer and actress, born 1991
  • Won Jin-ahb. 1991KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actress
  • Lee Jin-ahb. 1991KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean pianist, singer, and songwriter
  • Kwon Jin-ahb. 1997KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean singer and guitarist

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 Chin-A 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 Chin-A mean, and where does it come from?
Main GB Location (1881): Surrey; Notts. Recorded by Dizionario dei cognomi italiani and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 3 other sources.
Is Chin-A a male or female name?
Chin-A 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 Chin-A have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 4.0 thousand people named Chin-A, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Chin-A most common?
Chin-A is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 84 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Chin-A?
In the United States, the national register counted 3,979 people named Chin-A in 2020, about 1 in 84 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, “Chin-A”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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