Chỉ

loc · Latin script

Meaning: thread

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Chỉ is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Vietnam than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • VNVietnam≈1 in 2.5K(inferred from the name graph)
  • SESweden1 in 19K
  • USUnited States1 in 29K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Vietnam (inferred from the name graph)

≈39,000 people, est.

Sources
214 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 2.5K (inferred from the name graph)

Vietnam, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Chi in VN Vietnam.

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(measured from records)

thread

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Chỉ 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.

Where Chỉ is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
VN Vietnam≈39,000 est.≈1 in 2.5K—Chi214
US United States11,3411 in 29K8.5K—161
SE Sweden5481 in 19K548—14
FI Finland1211 in 46K269—4
DK Denmark1151 in 51K77——
IS Iceland101 in 35K10——

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; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Chỉ is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate surname28 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Vietnam, United States, Mexico, India

    Also written Chi, Chí, Chị, Chî, Čhî

  • English given name118 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Mexico, Australia, Malaysia

    Languages: English, Spanish, German

    Also written Chi, Chii, Chí, Chi-I, Çhï

  • Chinese given name14 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macao, China

    Also written Chi, Chï, Ch'I, Chî, Çhï

  • Japanese name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Japan

    Also written Chi, Chị, Chí

  • Turkish name16 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye

    Also written Chi, Çhi, Chị, Çhį, Çhî

  • Malay name15 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Malaysia, Indonesia

    Languages: Malay, Indonesian

    Also written Chi, Çhî, Chị, Çhï, Chì

  • a separate name6 spellings in the group

    Also written Chi, Çhỉ, Chị, Chí, Chì

16 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

0500100015002000Empress Yang Zhi, b. 258Yang Zhi, b. 1526Nora Hsiung Chu, b. 1902Louise Chow, b. 1943
  • Empress Yang Zhib. 258not in their usual nameJin Dynasty empress
  • Yang Zhib. 1526not in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 204258
  • Nora Hsiung Chub. 1902CNnot in their usual nameChinese educator
  • Louise Chowb. 1943TWnot in their usual nameProfessor of biochemistry and molecular genetics
  • Xia Zhinot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 129510
  • Jiang Zhinot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 288065
  • Cao Zhinot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 277677
  • Zhu Zhinot in their usual namelived in Ming dynasty (朱芷)
  • Ren Zhinot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 337130
  • Tang Zhinot in their usual nameQing dynasty person CBDB = 120821

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Chỉ under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Chỉ mean, and where does it come from?
thread Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Chỉ have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 39 thousand people named Chỉ in Vietnam, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled chi.
How common is the name Chỉ?
In the United States, the national register counted 11,341 people named Chỉ in 2020, about 1 in 29 thousand residents.

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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, “Chỉ”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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