Chahine
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Chahine is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Lebanon than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 145K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 481K
- LBLebanon≈1 in 4.5K
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.
- Lebanon (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 182 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,200 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Lebanon, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Chahine 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LB Lebanon | #328 | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 4.5K | 1 | Chahine | 59 |
| DZ Algeria | — | ≈710 est. | ≈1 in 61K | listed | Chahine | 17 |
| US United States | — | 691 | 1 in 481K | 851 | Chahine | 125 |
| MA Morocco | — | ≈680 est. | ≈1 in 53K | — | Chahine | 30 |
| FR France | — | ≈470 est. | ≈1 in 145K | 2.7K | Chahine | 182 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 32K | — | Chahine | 40 |
| SE Sweden | — | 200 | 1 in 51K | 200 | Chahine | 16 |
| CY Cyprus | — | ≈73 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Chahine | 8 |
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: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; A list of popular Lebanese baby names published by Oxybul.; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Edgar Chahineb. 1874FRpainter and engraver (1874-1947)
- Youssef Chahineb. 1926EGEgyptian film director (1926–2008)
- Moustafa T. Chahineb. 1935LBLebanese-American atmospheric scientist
- Elham Shahinb. 1955EGnot in their usual nameEgyptian actress
- Khalil Chahineb. 1956FRFrench composer, guitarist and jazz guitarist
- Mohamed Chahineb. 1956CAresearcher and professor at Université Laval
- Carlos Chahineb. 1959LBactor
- Antoinette Chahineb. 1971LBLebanese activist (born 1971 or 1972)
- Darine Chahineb. 1981LBLebanese television presenter
- Momo Chahineb. 1996DEGerman singer (born 1996)
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)
Attested in 31 sources across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 851 | #29,547 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 691 | #33,121 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 522 | #39,617 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 200 | #4,154 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 51 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 30 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 17 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 11 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 5 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 3 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 2 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Chahine have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.2 thousand people named Chahine in Lebanon, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled chahine.
- How common is the name Chahine?
- In the United States, the national register counted 691 people named Chahine in 2010, about 1 in 481 thousand residents.
- How common is Chahine compared with other names?
- In Lebanon, Chahine is the 328th most common surname of 45,185 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Chahine?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/chahineThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Chahine” — the 328th most common surname in Lebanon. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.