Chinà
surname · Latin script
Chinà is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Surrey; Notts.
- SISlovenia≈1 in 120K(inferred from the name graph)
- CHSwitzerland≈1 in 200K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 300K
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 Chinà itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 225 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 123K (inferred from the name graph)
6,337 named Chen, 2020
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Slovenia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled China in US United States, PK Pakistan.
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)Main GB Location (1881): Surrey; Notts. probably a variant of Chiney, which is now practically extinct, through association with the country-name and encouraged by hypercorrection of the 18th–19th-century non-standard tendency to pronounce final /ə/ as /i/, as with Dickens’ character Sairey Gamp.
Cited for this meaning 5
- Dizionario dei cognomi italiani
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
- Dizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani
Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Chinà 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 | 6,337as Chen | 1 in 52K | 234K | China | 225 |
| BR Brazil | 952as Chen | 1 in 222K | 1.2K | — | 1 |
| ES Spain | 259as Chen | 1 in 193K | 26K | — | 10 |
| PL Poland | 229as Chen | 1 in 167K | 1.2K | — | — |
| PK Pakistan | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | China | 9 |
| DK Denmark | 66as Chen | 1 in 89K | 1.2K | — | — |
| FI Finland | 33as Chen | 1 in 169K | 1.9K | — | 2 |
| SI Slovenia | ≈17 est. | ≈1 in 123K | 118 | — | 1 |
| CZ Czechia | 2 | 1 in 5.4M | 25 | — | — |
6,337 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020, counting the spelling chen. 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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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
- What does the name Chinà mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): Surrey; Notts. Recorded by Dizionario dei cognomi italiani and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 3 other sources.
- In which country does Chinà have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 6.3 thousand people named Chen, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Chinà?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 2 people named Chinà, about 1 in 5.4 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/chin%C3%A0The 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, “Chinà”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.