Kìñ

surname · Latin script

Kìñ is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Compare French Quin.

rarermore common
  • SESweden1 in 56K(measured from records)
  • ALAlbania1 in 73K
  • USUnited States1 in 106K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

3,138 people, 2020

Sources
17 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 56K (inferred from the name graph)

Sweden

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Kin 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)

Compare French Quin.

Sources 5

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Wiktionary
  • Clauson, An Etymological Dictionary of Pre-Thirteenth-Century Turkish (1972)
  • Schuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007)

Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Kìñ 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 Kìñ is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States3,1381 in 106K2.3KKin17
BR Brazil2111 in 1M211——
SE Sweden1831 in 56K183——
AL Albania421 in 73K42——
CR Costa Rica151 in 340K15——
IS Iceland11 in 351K1——

3,138 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; 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).

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Kìñ 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 Kìñ mean, and where does it come from?
Compare French Quin. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 3 other sources.
In which country does Kìñ have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 3.1 thousand people named Kìñ, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kin.
Where is Kìñ most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kìñ is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 56 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Kìñ?
In the United States, the national register counted 3,138 people named Kìñ in 2020, about 1 in 106 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, “Kìñ”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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