Chîî
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Chîî is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Vietnam than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 29Kas Chi(measured from records)
- VNVietnam≈1 in 361as Chi
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 3.2Kas Chi
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 Chîî 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.
- Vietnam (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 376 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 361 (inferred from the name graph)
≈270,000 named Chi, est.
Highest-authority source
Vietnam, est., as Chi
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Chi in US United States, AU Australia, VN Vietnam, Chii in MY Malaysia, NG Nigeria, SG Singapore and Chî in DZ Algeria.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
- Schuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007)
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Chîî 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VN Vietnam | ≈270,000 est. | ≈1 in 361 | — | Chi | 6 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Chii | 53 |
| US United States | 11,341as Chi | 1 in 29K | 8.5K | Chi | 376 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.2K | — | Chii | 63 |
| DZ Algeria | ≈4,600 est. | ≈1 in 9.3K | — | Chî | 5 |
| AU Australia | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 9.6K | 4 | Chi | 170 |
| SG Singapore | ≈770 est. | ≈1 in 8.1K | — | Chii | 76 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM). 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- Is Chîî a male or female name?
- Chîî is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Chîî have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 273 thousand people named Chi in Vietnam, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Chîî?
- In the United States, the national register counted 11,341 people named Chi in 2020, about 1 in 29 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Chîî?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ch%C3%AE%C3%AEThe 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, “Chîî”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.