Chin
Chin is a boy's name that peaked in 1881, when it was the 533rd most popular in the United States. It has not appeared in the national data since 1990. About 20 Chins are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 54.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Chin
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 135
- Estimated living today
- 20
- Median age today
- 54
- Peak year
- 1881
- Best rank
- 533rd
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1880
How old the living Chins are
born that year still alive today
Of the 135 babies given the name since 1880, about 20 are alive — 15 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1971 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Chins
- Chin Peng (1924–2013)Malaysian communist, OBE
People named Chin with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Names of 1881
The most popular boys’ names the year Chin peaked:
Related names
Chin against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.