Skip to content
Name Lineage

    The surname Chinn

    A surname, carried by 6,211 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex C500

    Chinn: #5,601 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Chinn #5,601, 6,211 people Chinn: #5,601 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Chinn #5,601, 6,211 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Chinn is more common than 96.5% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 6,211 people named Chinn in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 49,709 Americans. That is up 1.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 6,146.

    #5,601
    rank among US surnames
    6,211
    people in 2010
    2.1
    per 100,000 Americans
    +1.1%
    change since 2000 (was #5,220)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #5,596Click6,21649,669
    #5,598Harbison6,21549,677
    #5,600McSwain6,21349,693
    #5,601Chinn6,21149,709
    #5,602Yip6,20849,733

    Who is named Chinn

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    48% of people named Chinn identified as white (not Hispanic), 24% as Asian and Pacific Islander and 18% as Black (not Hispanic).

    • White (not Hispanic) 48%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 24%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 18%
    • Two or more races 6.4%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.6%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.7%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Famous Chinns

    1 notable person on Wikidata, most written-about first

    • May Edward Chinn
      African-American physician (1896–1980)

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like Chinn

    Chinn has the Soundex code C500, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C500.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Chinn?
    6,211 people in the United States had the surname Chinn in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 49,709 Americans. It ranked 5,601st of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Chinn?
    In the 2010 Census, 48% of people named Chinn identified as white (not Hispanic), and 24% as Asian and Pacific Islander.
    Who is the most famous person named Chinn?
    May Edward Chinn, African-American physician (1896–1980).
    Where is the surname Chinn most common?
    Wikidata records people named Chinn in the United States.
    Is the surname Chinn getting more or less common?
    More common. 6,146 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 6,211 in 2010, up 1.1%.