Chic
org · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ʃici/(machine-generated) Portuguese · model-generated · uncertain
Chic is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from French chic (“elegant”), which in turn is probably derived from German Schick (“elegant appearance; tasteful presentation”).
- GHGhana
- GBUnited Kingdom
- NLNetherlands
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. 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.
- United States (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 104 (measured from records)
no count published
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Chic
- Portuguese:/ʃici/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)- Frenchchic“elegant”(measured from records)
- GermanSchick“elegant appearance; tasteful presentation”(measured from records)
Borrowed from French chic (“elegant”), which in turn is probably derived from German Schick (“elegant appearance; tasteful presentation”). The word is akin to Dutch schielijk (“hasty”), schikken (“to arrange”) and Old English sċēon (“to happen”).
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Chic counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 267 | Chic | 104 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | — | Chic | 31 |
| AU Australia | — | — | Chic | 12 |
| CA Canada | — | — | Chic | 21 |
| DE Germany | — | — | Chic | 16 |
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 2020. 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)- Chic Johnsonb. 1891USAmerican comedian (1891–1962)
- Chic Murrayb. 1919GBBritish actor (1919-1985)
- Chic Hechtb. 1928USAmerican politician (1928-2006)
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)11 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Chic mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from French chic (“elegant”), which in turn is probably derived from German Schick (“elegant appearance; tasteful presentation”). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Chic?
- In Portuguese /ʃici/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Chic have the most bearers?
- Chic is most frequently recorded in the United States, where it is most often spelled chic.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/chicThe 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, “Chic” — ranked 51177th in the United States (Census Bureau). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.