Jinyi
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ʒiɲi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Jinyi is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 878K(measured from records)
- KRSouth Korea≈1 in 6.9Kas 진이
- CNChina≈1 in 48K
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 Jinyi 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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 92 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 48K (inferred from the name graph)
≈29,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
China, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Jini in MY Malaysia, ID Indonesia, 진이 in KR South Korea, Jiny in US United States and Jin-Yi in TW Taiwan.
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.
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jinyi 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈29,000 est. | ≈1 in 48K | — | Jinyi | 56 |
| KR South Korea | ≈7,500 est. | ≈1 in 6.9K | — | 진이 | 31 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈580 est. | ≈1 in 459K | — | Jini | 35 |
| TW Taiwan | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 60K | — | Jin-Yi | 20 |
| US United States | 379 | 1 in 878K | 310 | Jiny | 92 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 252K | — | Jini | 16 |
| SG Singapore | ≈26 est. | ≈1 in 243K | — | Jinyi | 13 |
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. 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 15 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 283 | #25,135 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 96 | #25,135 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 5 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Jinyi?
- A machine transcription gives /ʒiɲi/ (IPA) for Chinese.
- Is Jinyi a male or female name?
- Jinyi is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Jinyi have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 29 thousand people named Jinyi in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jinyi.
- How common is the name Jinyi?
- In the United States, the national register counted 379 people named Jinyi in 2020, about 1 in 878 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Jinyi?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jinyiThe 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, “Jinyi”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.