How common is the surname Chirino?

1,540 people in the United States had the surname Chirino in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 200,484 Americans. It ranked 18,090th of 162,253 surnames.

Is the surname Chirino getting more or less common?

More common. 769 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,540 in 2010, up 100%.

The surname Chirino

A Spanish surname, carried by 1,540 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex C650

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Chirino is more common than 88.9% of them.

Origin

Spanish origin

Borrowed from Spanish Chirino.

One of 992 Spanish surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,540 people named Chirino in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 200,484 Americans. That is up 100% since 2000, when the Census counted 769.

#18,090

rank among US surnames

1,540

people in 2010

0.5

per 100,000 Americans

+100.3%

change since 2000 (was #29,040)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#18,089	Frasca	1,541	200,354
#18,090	Zeh	1,540	200,484
#18,098	Quayle	1,539	200,614

Who is named Chirino

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

96% of people named Chirino identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), 4.0% as white (not Hispanic).

Hispanic or Latino (any race) 96%
White (not Hispanic) 4.0%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Asian & Pacific Islander, Multiracial are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among Hispanic and Latino Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Surnames that sound like Chirino

Chirino has the Soundex code C650, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C650.

Other Spanish surnames

All 992 Spanish surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Chirino come from?: Borrowed from Spanish Chirino.
How common is the surname Chirino?: 1,540 people in the United States had the surname Chirino in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 200,484 Americans. It ranked 18,090th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Chirino?: In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Chirino identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), and 4.0% as white (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Chirino getting more or less common?: More common. 769 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,540 in 2010, up 100%.