Chino
loc · Latin script
Meaning: A coarse cotton fabric commonly used to make trousers and uniforms (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 16 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Chino is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- PAPanama≈1 in 91K(inferred from the name graph)
- ESSpain≈1 in 470K
- USUnited States1 in 575K
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.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 184 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 91K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Panama, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)A coarse cotton fabric commonly used to make trousers and uniforms.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Chino 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4M | 5 | — | 7 |
| US United States | 579 | 1 in 575K | 1.8K | Chino | 184 |
| ES Spain | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 468K | 90 | — | 32 |
| IT Italy | ≈94 est. | ≈1 in 627K | listed | — | 11 |
| AR Argentina | ≈70 est. | ≈1 in 655K | 642 | — | 38 |
| PA Panama | ≈50 est. | ≈1 in 91K | 2 | — | 7 |
| BE Belgium | ≈19 est. | ≈1 in 611K | 1 | — | 5 |
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 2010; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Tribunal Electoral — Boletín, postulaciones for the 5 May 2024 general election; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); the italian-surnames-defelice-1978 register. 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)Chino is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, forma popular e coloquial, redução de Franceschino.
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In English, city, CA
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In Italian, Variante di Chini
as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani
In Italian, lowered, bent, bowed
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Asturian, neuter of chinu
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)- Chino Morenob. 1973USAmerican singer (born 1973)
- Shio Chinob. 1977JPJapanese TV announcer
- Chino Darínb. 1989ARArgentine actor and producer
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)30 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 16 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Chino mean, and where does it come from?
- A coarse cotton fabric commonly used to make trousers and uniforms. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Which countries have the most people named Chino?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.0 thousand people named Chino in India, more than in any other country we hold. After it come United States, Spain, Italy and Argentina; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Chino?
- In the United States, the national register counted 579 people named Chino in 2020, about 1 in 575 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/chinoThe 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, “Chino” — ranked 183803rd in India (Instate). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.