Chin
Chin was last recorded in 1990, when 5 babies were given it; 135 Americans have been recorded with it between 1880 and 1990 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Chin by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Chin?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #8,318, in 1990; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
11 babies in 1881, the peak
Chin peaked in 1881, when 11 boys were given it, #540 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 5 | #8,318 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 5 | #6,896 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 7 | #4,034 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 5 | #4,493 | under 0.01 |
| 1925 | 5 | #4,303 | under 0.01 |
| 1910 | 5 | #1,633 | 0.03 |
| 1905 | 11 | #750 | 0.08 |
| 1901 | 5 | #1,078 | 0.05 |
| 1900 | 6 | #1,190 | 0.04 |
| 1898 | 5 | #1,153 | 0.04 |
Every recorded year (21)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1897 | 5 | #1,092 | 0.04 |
| 1895 | 5 | #1,106 | 0.04 |
| 1889 | 5 | #994 | 0.05 |
| 1888 | 11 | #619 | 0.09 |
| 1887 | 5 | #955 | 0.05 |
| 1886 | 5 | #991 | 0.05 |
| 1884 | 5 | #998 | 0.04 |
| 1883 | 11 | #562 | 0.11 |
| 1882 | 8 | #714 | 0.07 |
| 1881 | 11 | #540 | 0.11 |
| 1880 | 5 | #938 | 0.05 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Chin a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Chin has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 21 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Chin: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Chin, and how old are they?
An estimated 20 Americans named Chin and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 3,121 people named Chin (1,607 women and girls, 1,514 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 21 born in the U.S. The Census count is 148.6 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Chin
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Chin and names like it
- Compare Chin and OleBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1880sChin peaked in 1881.
- The top names of 1881The year the most babies were named Chin.
- Names starting with CMost given first.