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The CHIN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 25,673 1255 0.01 95
United States (1880 census) 522 9327 0.001 10
Change since 1880 +25151 +8072 +0.009 +85
Other Countries
Australia 1,237 1335 0.008 76
United Kingdom 927 5595 0.002 20
Top States for CHIN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 6,973 433 0.021 206
New York 5,248 266 0.028 277
Florida 2,204 883 0.014 138
Massachusetts 1,720 451 0.027 271
New Jersey 1,674 433 0.020 199
Top States for CHIN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 5,248 266 0.028 277
Massachusetts 1,720 451 0.027 271
Rhode Island 234 555 0.022 223
California 6,973 433 0.021 206
New Jersey 1,674 433 0.020 199

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called CHIN live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called CHIN represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called CHIN in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a CHIN by picking someone at random in New York than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of CHIN

Region of origin: Asia

Country of origin: China

Language of origin: Chinese

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the CHIN surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of CHIN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 616 2.4
Native American/Alaskan 31 0.12
Asian/Pacific 20,012 77.95
Black/African American 1,548 6.03
Mixed Race 1,805 7.03
White (Caucasian) 1,664 6.48

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the CHIN surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of CHIN in historical publications

CHIN. Perhaps a diminutive of Chinbald, but more likely local. A De Cheue occurs in H.R. co. Bedford, and there is also a Le Chene.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to CHIN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CHIN.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for CHIN

The following words are slight variants of CHIN that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.