Chide
surname · Latin script
Meaning: nickname from Middle English chide ‘chiding, quarrelling, wrangling, a quarrel’ (Old English ge-cīd) (The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries
Chide is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country: 15 people, counted by Instate.
- INIndia1 in 88M(measured from records)
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. 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 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 43 (measured from records)
- 1 in 88M (inferred from the name graph)
15 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
India
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)nickname from Middle English chide ‘chiding, quarrelling, wrangling, a quarrel’ (Old English ge-cīd).
Cited for this meaning 1
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Chide is found
(measured from records)Chide 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 | 15 | 1 in 88M | 15 | Chide | 9 |
| US United States | — | — | — | Chide | 43 |
| NG Nigeria | — | — | — | Chide | 24 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | — | — | Chide | 15 |
| ZA South Africa | — | — | — | Chide | 5 |
15 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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)Chide 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 English, To admonish in blame; to reproach angrily.
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.
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)7 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Chide mean, and where does it come from?
- nickname from Middle English chide ‘chiding, quarrelling, wrangling, a quarrel’ (Old English ge-cīd). Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
- In which country does Chide have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 15 people named Chide, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled chide.
- Where is Chide most common?
- Chide is densest in India, where the national register counts about 1 in 88 million people carrying it.
- How common is the name Chide?
- In India, the national register counted 15 people named Chide, about 1 in 88 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/chideThe 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, “Chide” — ranked 94615th in India (Instate). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.