Jin-Yi
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Jin-Yi is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- CNChina≈1 in 10Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 230Kfew records
- USUnited States1 in 878K
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 Jin-Yi 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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 92 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 10K (inferred from the name graph)
≈130,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
China, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Jini in IN India, MY Malaysia, ID Indonesia, 진이 in KR South Korea, Jiny in US United States and Jinyi in CN China.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Jin-Yi 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 | ≈130,000 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Jinyi | 56 |
| IN India | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 67K | 591 | Jini | 75 |
| KR South Korea | ≈9,700 est. | ≈1 in 5.3K | — | 진이 | 31 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈830 est. | ≈1 in 343K | — | Jini | 35 |
| TW Taiwan | ≈690 est. | ≈1 in 34K | — | Jin-Yi | 20 |
| US United States | 379 | 1 in 878K | 310 | Jiny | 92 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 225K | — | Jini | 16 |
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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex. 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)- Kim Jin-yib. 1982KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actress
- Rumble Fishb. 1982KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean singer
- Park Jin-yib. 1983KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean footballer
- Yoon Jin-yib. 1990KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actress
- Kim Jin-yib. 1993KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean handball player
- Lee Jinib. 1999KRSouth Korean actress, born 1999
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 Jin-Yi a male or female name?
- Jin-Yi 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 Jin-Yi have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 134 thousand people named Jin-Yi in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jinyi.
- How common is the name Jin-Yi?
- In the United States, the national register counted 379 people named Jin-Yi in 2020, about 1 in 878 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Jin-Yi?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jin-yiThe 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, “Jin-Yi”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.