Qî
surname · Latin script
Qî is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 氣／气 (qì).
- FIFinland1 in 48K(measured from records)
- ESSpain1 in 126K
- DKDenmark1 in 163K
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 Qî 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)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 141 (measured from records)
- 1 in 48K (inferred from the name graph)
7,273 named Chi, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Ci in US United States, IT Italy, ES Spain and 1 more, Či in LT Lithuania and Çi in DE Germany.
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)From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 氣／气 (qì).
Cited for this meaning 3
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Wiktionary
- Schuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Qî is found
(measured from records)Qî 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 | 7,273as Chi | 1 in 46K | 8.5K | Ci | 141 |
| IT Italy | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 49K | 1 | Ci | 35 |
| DE Germany | ≈730 est. | ≈1 in 115K | — | Çi | 39 |
| ES Spain | 398 | 1 in 126K | 398 | Ci | 26 |
| BR Brazil | 313as Chi | 1 in 676K | 313 | Ci | 36 |
| LT Lithuania | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Či | 6 |
| FI Finland | 117 | 1 in 48K | 269 | — | 1 |
| NO Norway | 50as Chi | 1 in 109K | 194 | — | 1 |
7,273 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling chi. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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 Qî mean, and where does it come from?
- From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 氣／气 (qì). Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Qî?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 7.3 thousand people named Chi, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Italy, Germany, Spain and Brazil; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Qî most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Qî is densest in Finland — about 1 in 48 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Qî?
- In Spain, the national register counted 398 people named Qî, about 1 in 126 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/q%C3%AEThe 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, “Qî”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.