Cí
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Cí is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- ITItaly≈1 in 66K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 46Kas Chi
- LTLithuania≈1 in 22K
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 Cí 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 141 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 22K (inferred from the name graph)
7,273 named Chi, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Lithuania, 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 Ci in US United States, IT Italy, ES Spain, Ци in CN China, 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)
姓 , 见 《 姓 苑 》(7,21,62) 。 居 于 刺 门 者 以 为 氏 , 见 张 潮 4 姓氏 五 书 注 》(62 ) 。
Sources 4
- Digital Pāḷi Dictionary
- Chinese Surnames Encyclopedia (Section 2)
- Schuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007)
- Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Cí 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 |
| CN China | ≈6,900 est. | ≈1 in 202K | — | Ци | 18 |
| IT Italy | ≈940 est. | ≈1 in 66K | 1 | Ci | 35 |
| DE Germany | ≈690 est. | ≈1 in 116K | — | Çi | 39 |
| ES Spain | 398as Qi | 1 in 126K | 398 | Ci | 26 |
| LT Lithuania | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Či | 6 |
| FI Finland | 117as Qi | 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); 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Cí is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In bnt-pro, ground, country, underneath
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Chinese, Hanyu Pinyin reading of 垐
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In bnt-pro, inhabitant, person of
as a wordBantu Lexical Reconstructions 3 (BLR3), Tervuren 2002/2003
In bnt-pro, (his) father
as a wordBantu Lexical Reconstructions 3 (BLR3), Tervuren 2002/2003
In bnt-pro, habitant de
as a wordBantu Lexical Reconstructions 3 (BLR3), Tervuren 2002/2003
In bnt-pro, (son) père
as a wordBantu Lexical Reconstructions 3 (BLR3), Tervuren 2002/2003
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Han Qib. 1421not in their usual namepolitician
- Wu Qib. 1977CNnot in their usual nameChinese Go player, born 1977
- Feng Qib. 1981CNnot in their usual nameChinese footballer
- Zhang Qib. 1985CNnot in their usual nameChinese Go player born 1985
- Li Qinot in their usual nameMing dynasty person, son of Li Shanchang
- Wu Qinot in their usual nameEastern Wu noble
- Zhu Qinot in their usual nameSong dynasty person CBDB = 36077
- Zeng Qinot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 256521
- Yang Qinot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 214210
- Wei Qinot in their usual namejingshi of 1568, from Lantian, Xi'an Fu, China (Ming dynasty person CBDB = 336705)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- Is Cí a male or female name?
- Cí is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Cí have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 7.3 thousand people named Chi, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Cí?
- In the United States, the national register counted 7,273 people named Chi in 2010, about 1 in 46 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/c%C3%ADThe 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, “Cí”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.