Chino
loc · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Chino is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. Recorded meaning: A coarse cotton fabric commonly used to make trousers and uniforms.
- USUnited States1 in 575K(measured from records)
- PAPanama≈1 in 111K
- TWTaiwan≈1 in 239K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 184 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 111K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,400 people, est.
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.
Sources 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 581K | — | Chino | 7 |
| US United States | 579 | 1 in 575K | 1.8K | Chino | 184 |
| ES Spain | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 387K | 90 | — | 32 |
| TW Taiwan | ≈99 est. | ≈1 in 239K | — | Chino | 13 |
| IT Italy | ≈94 est. | ≈1 in 663K | listed | — | 11 |
| AR Argentina | ≈84 est. | ≈1 in 541K | 642 | — | 38 |
| PA Panama | ≈35 est. | ≈1 in 111K | 2 | — | 7 |
| CZ Czechia | ≈20 est. | ≈1 in 531K | 2 | — | — |
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); Tribunal Electoral — Boletín, postulaciones for the 5 May 2024 general election; MVČR — living population register 2017; 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)
- Koji Chinob. 1930JPJapanese film director
- Eiichi Chinob. 1932JPJapanese linguist and translator (1932-2002)
- Tadao Chinob. 1934JPJapanese banker (1934–2008)
- Kaori Chinob. 1952JPJapanese art historian
- Chino Morenob. 1973USAmerican singer (born 1973)
- Shio Chinob. 1977JPJapanese TV announcer
- Toshiki Chinob. 1985JPJapanese association football player
- Chino Darínb. 1989ARArgentine actor and producer
- Betssy Chávezb. 1989PEnot in their usual namePrime Minister of Peru in 2022
- Kurumi Chinob. 1992JPJapanese AV idol
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 30 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.8K | #16,238 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.8K | #16,019 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.2K | #20,693 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 642 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 90 | #29,640 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 90 | #29,517 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 2 | #191,729 |
| PA Panama | Tribunal Electoral — Boletín, postulaciones for the 5 May 2024 general election | 2024 | 2 | #778 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 2 | #24,858 |
| IT Italy | Dizionario dei Cognomi Italiani (De Felice, 1978) | — | — | — |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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
- 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).
- In which country does Chino have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.4 thousand people named Chino in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled chino.
- 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.
What do you want to know about Chino?
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/chinoThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 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, “Chino”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.