Qin

Qin is the 6,377th most common surname in the United States, shared by 5,127 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 58,300.

By the numbers

People: 5,127
Rank: 6,377th
How common: 1 in 58,300
Per 100,000: 1.7

Where the name comes from

Origin Chinese

From the cmn-pinyin romanization of the, from (*dzin), from (*dzin).

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

Who bears the name

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

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 95.8%
White, not Hispanic 2.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.9%
Black, not Hispanic 0.6%
Hispanic or Latino 0.2%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.02%

Notable people called Qin

Qin Gang (born 1966)former Foreign Affairs Minister of China
Qin Jiushao (1208–1261)mathematician of Southern Song dynasty, wrote Shu shu jiu zhang
King Zhuangxiang of Qin (280 BC–246 BC)king of the Qin
Qin Kai (born 1986)Chinese diver
Qin Haiyang (born 1999)Chinese swimmer
Xiao Qin (born 1985)Chinese gymnast
Duke Mu of Qin (650 BC–620 BC)Ruler of Qin from 659 to 621 BC
Qin Dongya (born 1978)judoka

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

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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.