Chì
given name · Latin script
Meaning: lead (chemical element)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Chì is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Vietnam than in any other country.
- VNVietnam≈1 in 2.5K(inferred from the name graph)
- SESweden1 in 19K
- USUnited States1 in 29K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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.
- Vietnam (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 214 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈39,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Vietnam, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Chi in VN Vietnam.
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)lead (chemical element)
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 29 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Chì 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.
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Chì is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Scottish Gaelic, future indicative independent of faic
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Chinese, Hanyu Pinyin reading of 乿
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Corsican, who? whom?
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In kix, slat
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)- Cao Zhib. 250not in their usual namecao Wei prince and Western Jin official (died 288)
- Bing Zhib. 1886CNnot in their usual nameChinese zoologist
- Xu Zhiqinb. 1941CNnot in their usual nameChinese structural geologist
- Shen Zhihuab. 1950CNnot in their usual nameChinese historian
- Guo Zhigangb. 1954CNnot in their usual nameChinese sociologist
- Lu Zhiquanb. 1994CNnot in their usual nameChinese athletics competitor
- Zhi Duan ChenCNnot in their usual namebotanist
- Liu Zhinot in their usual namemember of the Han dynasty imperial family
- Zhi-Cai Xienot in their usual namezoologist
- Tian Zhinot in their usual nameMing dynasty person CBDB = 215235
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
- What does the name Chì mean, and where does it come from?
- lead (chemical element) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Chì a male or female name?
- Chì 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 Chì have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 39 thousand people named Chì in Vietnam, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled chi.
- How common is the name Chì?
- In the United States, the national register counted 11,341 people named Chì in 2020, about 1 in 29 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Chì?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ch%C3%ACThe 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, “Chì”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.