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Chinh

Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded; Chinese origin

Chinh has been given to 14 babies in the U.S. since 1980. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1982, with 9 recorded.

Babies named Chinh, 1982

1 in 390,000

Chinh over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Chinh: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded; Chinese origin

Chinese

What Chinh means

Chinh is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Chinh is used in Vietnamese. Its origins include Chinese.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Vietnamese, Chinh is pronounced [t͡ɕïŋ˧˧].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 14 boys were recorded with the name Chinh between 1980 and 1982. Its highest annual count was 9 in 1982; its best national rank was #4,285 in 1982.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Chinh?

Chinh had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1982, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1982
1 in 390,000
9 of 3,507,638 births
Among boys only
1 in 202,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1982
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
270,147 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Chinh sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1982 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 270,147 children born in 1982 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Chinh. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Chinhs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Chinh was born before 1982 — so the typical Chinh is around 43 today.

Median birth year
1982
About 43 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
14
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (14).

Is Chinh rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1982 (9)
Years since peak
43
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#4,285
1982

Spellings of Chinh

Chinh is not the most common spelling — Clint is, with 59.2% against Chinh's 0.03%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Chinh around the world

Where Chinh ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • South Australia
    1984–1984
    #661
    in 1984

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Chinh by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#4,285
1982
Peak year
1982
9 that year
First recorded
1980
Last recorded
1982
All-time count
14
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Chinh

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

ChimdiChilohChirsChinaChiamChikaChiemChicChinouChienChinuaChikeChiraagChihChibuzoChickChieduChingChiantiChimengChironChimdinduChiefTinh

Sibling names for Chinh

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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