Chin

Last seen for boys in 1990 at #8,117

Peak · boys
1881 · 11 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
135
since 1880

Chin over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Chin has never cracked the top 500 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201882peak #533, 1881boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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1990#8,1175
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1971#3,9637
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1925#4,1975
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1910#1,5895
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1905#74111
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1901#1,0585
1900#1,1626
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1898#1,1215
1897#1,0575
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1895#1,0795
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1889#9745
1888#60911
1887#9215
1886#9595
1885
1884#9715
1883#55611
1882#6918
1881#53311
1880#9095
First appearance
1880

In the first year the SSA published name data, Chin was already there! It came in at #909, and was given to 5 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1884–1887, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

See more about Chin
Momentum · boys
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 1990
  • Biggest jump: 376 spots in 1881 (#909#533)
  • Biggest drop: 415 spots in 1884 (#556#971)
Rise & fade · boys
1 yr to peak
  • Debuted 1880
  • Peaked 1881 at #533 (11 births)
  • Births halved by 1884, 3 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 10 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 10 yrs · run 1880–1884
Share of babies · boys
1 in 9,158
  • Highest: 1 in 9,158 boys born in 1881 were named Chin (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 410,808 boys born in 1990 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 1880s
  • 48.9% of all boys named Chin (66) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1880s66#533 (1881)#791
1890s15#1,057 (1897)#1,086
1900s22#741 (1905)#987
1910s5#1,589 (1910)#1,589
1920s5#4,197 (1925)#4,197
1930s0
1940s0
1950s0
1960s5#4,404 (1969)#4,404
1970s7#3,963 (1971)#3,963
1980s5#6,721 (1986)#6,721
1990s5#8,117 (1990)#8,117

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Chin in 1882

boys
#691
8 births · 1 in 14,211 boys

Top boys' names in 1882

  1. #1John9,557
  2. #2William9,298
  3. #3James5,892
  4. #4George5,193
  5. #5Charles5,091
  6. #6Frank3,176
  7. #7Joseph2,670
  8. #8Thomas2,610
  9. #9Henry2,579
  10. #10Robert2,500
  11. #691Chin8
More about 1882

boys

113,686 boys got a published name in 1882; 1 in 14,211 of them was named Chin, which outranked 37.1% of the 1,099 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 42.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Chin
  1. #652Winfred9
  2. #652Wong9
  3. #652Young9
  4. #691Chin8
  5. #691Ace8
  6. #691Alden8
  7. #691Alec8
  8. #754Adolfo7
  9. #754Alanzo7
  10. #754Albion7

Tied with 62 names at #691; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1881
Risers
  1. 467Clarance#866#399
  2. 429Webster#866#437
  3. 365Neil#781#416
  4. 352Cliff#866#514
  5. 352Elmore#866#514
Fallers
  1. 501Verne#442#943
  2. 483Newell#460#943
  3. 456Merritt#487#943
  4. 440Solon#503#943
  5. 395Almon#442#837

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1882