Chin

27,823 people in the United States were counted with the surname Chin in the 2020 census, making it the 1,245th most common in the country. That is about one person in 10,700.

By the numbers

People: 27,823
Rank: 1,245th
How common: 1 in 10,700
Per 100,000: 9.3

Where the name comes from

Origin Chinese

As a Chinese surname, a variant romanization of various Chinese characters, e.g.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Chin described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 73.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 10.4%
Black, not Hispanic 7.1%
White, not Hispanic 5.4%
Hispanic or Latino 3.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.05%

Notable people called Chin

Tsai Chin (born 1933)Chinese-born British actress
Unsuk Chin (born 1961)South Korean composer
Jimmy Chin (born 1973)American mountain climber, filmmaker
Tiffany Chin (born 1967)American figure skater
Elias Camsek Chin (born 1949)Palauan politician
Marilyn Chin (born 1955)American writer

People named Chin with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Chin

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.