Kïñ
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Kïñ is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In Macao it is the 4th most common given name. Recorded meaning: Compare French Quin.
- HKHong Kong≈1 in 369(inferred from the name graph)
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 3K
- SGSingapore≈1 in 7.4K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 295 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 369 (inferred from the name graph)
≈100,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Hong Kong, 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 Kin in US United States, HK Hong Kong, MY Malaysia and 4 more.
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 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kïñ 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 | — | ≈100,000 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Kin | 74 |
| HK Hong Kong | #7 | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 369 | — | Kin | 118 |
| MY Malaysia | #420 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 3K | — | Kin | 74 |
| US United States | — | 3,138 | 1 in 106K | 2.3K | Kin | 295 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 58K | — | Kin | 131 |
| MO Macao | #4 | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 592 | — | Kin | 32 |
| SG Singapore | #450 | ≈840 est. | ≈1 in 7.4K | — | Kin | 81 |
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Kïñ 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.
- Is Kïñ a male or female name?
- Kïñ is a male 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 Kïñ have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 102 thousand people named Kïñ in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kin.
- How common is the name Kïñ?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,138 people named Kïñ in 2020, about 1 in 106 thousand residents.
- How common is Kïñ compared with other names?
- In Macao, Kïñ is the 4th most common given name of 971 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/k%C3%AF%C3%B1The 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, “Kïñ” — the 4th most common given name in Macao. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.