Chinè
surname · Latin script
Chinè is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Middx.
- ESSpain1 in 336K(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 1.9M
- ARArgentina1 in 2.3M
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.
- India (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 9 (measured from records)
- 1 in 336K (inferred from the name graph)
343 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: reference-verified
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Chine in US United States.
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): Middx. locative name from Middle English chyne ‘fissure, cleft, chasm’; in Hants the term specifically denotes a ‘deep and narrow ravine cut in soft rock strata by a stream descending steeply to the sea’ (OED).
Cited for this meaning 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 2500 noms propres devenus communs : dictionnaire étymologique (éponymes, antonomases et hypallages)
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Chinè is found
(measured from records)Chinè 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.
343 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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 Chinè mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): Middx. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 2500 noms propres devenus communs : dictionnaire étymologique (éponymes, antonomases et hypallages).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Chinè?
- In India, the national register counted about 343 people named Chinè, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Spain, United States, Brazil and Italy; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Chinè most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Chinè is densest in Spain — about 1 in 336 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Chinè?
- In India, the national register counted 343 people named Chinè, about 1 in 3.9 million residents.
What do you want to know about Chinè?
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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%A8The 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, “Chinè”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.