Chip
given name · Latin script
Meaning: from ME chip, chippe ‘a small piece of wood chipped or cut off’; first attested Isabella Chippes 1275
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 16 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
/t͡ʃɪp/(recorded in a dictionary) English · from Wiktionary
Chip is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- SGSingapore≈1 in 60Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- CACanada≈1 in 61K
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 66Kfew records
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 384 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 45K (inferred from the name graph)
2,694 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Iceland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)from ME chip, chippe ‘a small piece of wood chipped or cut off’; first attested Isabella Chippes 1275
Cited for this meaning 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Chip, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Chip 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 2,694 | 1 in 123K | 2.7K | Chip | 384 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈740 est. | ≈1 in 94K | listed | Chip | 80 |
| CA Canada | ≈680 est. | ≈1 in 61K | 1 | Chip | 100 |
| UG Uganda | ≈600 est. | ≈1 in 84K | listed | — | 5 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈540 est. | ≈1 in 66K | — | Chip | 23 |
| SG Singapore | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 60K | — | Chip | 28 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈67 est. | ≈1 in 80K | — | Chip | 23 |
| IS Iceland | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 45K | — | Chip | 4 |
2,694 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; the gb-nisra-baby-names-ni register; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; the wgnd-ug-names 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Chip is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A small piece broken from a larger piece of solid material.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Polish, chip, microchip, computer chip, integrated circuit (small electronic device made up of multiple interconnected electronic components such as transistors, resistors, and capacitors)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Danish, a chip (one-piece circuit or hybrid device containing a circuit and another device)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, chip (small electronic component)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Hungarian, superseded spelling of csip
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.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Chip Zienb. 1947USAmerican actor
- Chip Kiddb. 1964USAmerican graphic designer (born 1964)
- Chip Royb. 1972USAmerican politician (born 1972)
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)30 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 16 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What are other forms of the name Chip?
- In the etymology graph, Carlos, Carol and Chris are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Charles and Christopher.
- What does the name Chip mean, and where does it come from?
- from ME chip, chippe ‘a small piece of wood chipped or cut off’; first attested Isabella Chippes 1275 Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- How do you pronounce Chip?
- In English /t͡ʃɪp/ (Wiktionary).
- Is Chip a male or female name?
- Chip is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- Which countries have the most people named Chip?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.7 thousand people named Chip, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled chip. After it come United Kingdom, Canada, Uganda and Malaysia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Chip?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,694 people named Chip in 2020, about 1 in 123 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Chip?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/chipThe 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, “Chip”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.