Chin (surname)

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Chin
Pronunciation/tʃɪn/
Language(s)Chinese, Korean, English
Other names
Variant form(s)

Chin is a surname. As a Chinese surname or Korean surname, it could originate from various Chinese characters (including 陳, 錢, and 秦), and it is also a surname in other cultures as well.

Origins[]

As a Chinese surname, Chin could originate from numerous Chinese characters including the following, listed by their spelling in Mandarin Pinyin:[1]

  • Chen (traditional Chinese: 陳; simplified Chinese: 陈), spelled Chin based on its pronunciation in multiple varieties of Chinese including Hakka (Hagfa Pinyim: Cin2; IPA: /t͡sʰɨn¹¹/).[2][3] This spelling of the surname is particularly common in Jamaica, to the extent that other Jamaicans will often use the nickname "Miss Chin" to address any Chinese Jamaican woman whose name they do not know.[4]
  • Jīn (Chinese: 金; IPA: /t͡ɕin⁵⁵/), spelled Chin in the Wade–Giles system used until the mid-20th century and still widespread in Taiwan.[5]
  • Jìn (Chinese: 靳; IPA: /t͡ɕin⁵¹/), spelled Chin in the Wade–Giles system.[6]
  • Qián (traditional Chinese: 錢; simplified Chinese: 钱), spelled Chin based on its pronunciation in Cantonese (Jyutping: Cin4; Cantonese Yale: Chìhn; IPA: /t͡sʰiːn²¹/). Written with a character meaning "money", according to tradition this originated as an occupational surname during the Western Zhou dynasty.[7]
  • Qín (Chinese: 秦; IPA: /t͡ɕʰin³⁵/), spelled Chin based on a simplification of the Wade–Giles spelling Ch'in. This originated as a toponymic surname, referring either to the state of Qin or to later places with the same name.[8]

As a Korean surname, Chin is the McCune–Reischauer romanisation of the four surnames more commonly spelled Jin in the Revised Romanization of Korean (Korean: 진; Hanja: 陳, 秦, 眞, or 晉; IPA: /t͡ɕin/). There is no modern Korean surname which Revised Romanization would spell as Chin (친).[9][10]

As an English surname, Chin is a variant spelling of Chinn (from Middle English chinne or chyn), which originated as a nickname for people with prominent or distinctive chins.[11]

Statistics[]

The 2000 South Korean census found 170,980 people with the four Korean surnames spelled Chin in McCune–Reischauer.[9] However, relatively few South Koreans with these surnames choose to spell them as Chin. In a study based on year 2007 application data for South Korean passports, 94.3% of the applicants with one of these surnames chose the spelling Jin for their passport, while only 4.7% chose the spelling Chin.[10]

According to statistics cited by Patrick Hanks, 1,504 people on the island of Great Britain and 17 on the island of Ireland bore the surname Chin in 2011. In 1881 there were 53 people with the surname in Great Britain, primarily at Cornwall.[1]

The 2010 United States Census found 27,487 people with the surname Chin, making it the 1,279th-most-common name overall. This represented an increase in absolute numbers, but a decrease in relative frequency, from 25,673 (1,255th-most-common) in the 2000 Census. In both censuses, slightly more than three quarters of the bearers of the surname identified as Asian, about 6% as White, and about 6% as Black.[12] It was the 50th-most-common surname among respondents to the 2000 Census who identified as Asian.[13]

People[]

Government, law, and politics[]

  • Larry Chin (金無怠; 1922–1986), Chinese-born American CIA officer
  • Peter Chin (陳荣和; born 1941), New Zealand politician
  • Ming Chin (陳惠明; born 1942), American judge
  • Peter Chin Fah Kui (陈华贵; born 1945), Malaysian politician
  • Elias Camsek Chin (born 1949), Palauan politician
  • Chin Young (진영; 陳永; born 1950), South Korean politician
  • Chin Hsiao-hui (金筱輝; born 1951), Taiwanese politician
  • Chin Tet Yung (陈德镛; born 1951), Singaporean politician
  • Denny Chin (陳卓光; born 1954), American federal judge
  • Margaret Chin (陳倩雯; born 1954), American politician of Chinese descent
  • Maria Chin Abdullah (born Chin Cheen Lian 陳清蓮, 1956), Malaysian politician
  • Ben Chin (진병규; born 1964), Canadian political advisor
  • Chin Wan (陳雲; born 1964), Hong Kong localist activist
  • Doug Chin (born 1966), American lawyer and politician from Hawaii
  • Chin Bun Sean, Cambodian politician
  • Gabriel J. Chin, American law professor
  • Chin Liew Ten, Singaporean philosophy professor

Music[]

Science and engineering[]

  • Chin Fung Kee (1920–1990), Malaysian civil engineer
  • Roland Chin (錢大康; born 1952), Hong Kong electrical engineering professor
  • Wynne Chin (born c. 1960), American management information systems professor
  • Lynda Chin (born 1968), Chinese-born American medical doctor
  • Karen Chin (fl. 1996–present), American paleontologist and taphonomist
  • Chin Saik Yoon, Malaysian information and communication technologies scholar
  • James Chin, American public health epidemiologist

Sport[]

  • Chin Kuai-Ti (靳貴第; 1915–?), Chinese boxer
  • Honson Chin (born 1956), Jamaican cyclist
  • Colin Chin (born 1961), American ice hockey player
  • Carla Chin (born 1966), Canadian football goalkeeper
  • Tiffany Chin (born 1967), American figure skating coach
  • Jimmy Chin (born 1973), American mountaineer
  • Krissy Chin (born 1980), American figure competitor
  • Chin Eei Hui (陈仪慧; born 1982), Malaysian badminton player
  • Gordon Chin (陳珩琛; born 1983), Canadian soccer midfielder
  • Chin Chum (born 1985), Cambodian football striker
  • Chin Kah Mun (陳嘉雯; born 1985), Malaysian badminton player
  • Dennis Chin (born 1987), Jamaican football forward
  • Marc Chin (born 1987), Caymanian cricketer
  • Shawn Chin (born 1989), American soccer midfielder and forward
  • Andrew Chin (born 1992), American baseball pitcher
  • Casey Chin (born 1992), Canadian football linebacker
  • Lee Chin (born 1992), Irish hurler, Gaelic football, and soccer player
  • Christian Didier Chin (born 2000), Malaysian tennis player

Television and film[]

Writers and humanities scholars[]

Other[]

  • Chin Gee Hee (陳宜禧; 1844–1929), Chinese merchant in Guangdong and Seattle, Washington
  • Chin Chun Hock (陳程學; 1844–1927), first Chinese man to settle in Seattle, Washington
  • Arthur Chin (陳瑞鈿; 1913–1997), American World War II fighter pilot in China
  • Chin Peng (陳平; 1924–2013), Malaysian communist leader
  • Leeann Chin (restaurateur) (1933–2010), Guangzhou-born American restaurateur
  • Mel Chin (born 1951), American visual artist
  • Chin Dae-je (진대제; 陳大濟; born 1952), South Korean businessman and politician
  • Vincent Jen Chin (陳果仁; 1955–1982), American murder victim
  • Curtis Chin (born 1965), American businessman
  • Alan Chin (artist) (born 1987), American artist of Chinese descent
  • Alan Chin (photographer), American photographer
  • Walter Chin, Jamaican photographer

Fictional characters[]

  • The Crimson Chin, from American animated television series The Fairly OddParents
  • Jordi Chin, from Ubisoft's video games series Watch Dogs

See also[]

  • Chin Kung (born 1927), Chinese Buddhist monk (Chin Kung is his dharma name)
  • Eusoff Chin (full name Mohamed Eusoff bin Chin, born 1936), Malaysian lawyer (Chin is a patronymic)
  • Chin Sian Thang (1938–2021), chairman of the Zomi Congress for Democracy in Myanmar (Burmese names do not have surnames)
  • Botak Chin (1951–1981), Malaysian gangster (botak is an epithet meaning 'bald', and Chin is part of his given name)

References[]

  1. ^ a b Hanks, Patrick; Coates, Richard; McClure, Peter, eds. (2016). The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland. Oxford University Press. p. 494. ISBN 9780192527479.
  2. ^ Hanks, Coates & McClure 2016, p. 494, entry #11
  3. ^ 劉鎮發 [Lau Chun-fat] (1997). 《客語拼音字彙》. 中文大學出版社 Chinese University of Hong Kong Press. p. 17. ISBN 9789622017504. The exact pronunciation would vary depending on the dialect of Hakka; tone 2 in Hagfa Pinyim is a light level tone.
  4. ^ Ho Misiaszek, Kimberly S. (2019). Expanding Perceptions of Identity in The U.S.: The Chinese Jamaican Immigrant Experience. Doctoral dissertation. University of Miami. p. 57, 111. Retrieved 6 November 2020. Shibata, Yoshiko (2005). "Revisiting Chinese Hybridity: Negotiating Categories and Re-constructing Ethnicity in Contemporary Jamaica – a Preliminary Report". Caribbean Quarterly. 51 (1): 53–75. doi:10.1080/00086495.2005.11672259. JSTOR 40654493. S2CID 141701086.
  5. ^ Hanks, Coates & McClure 2016, p. 494, entry #2
  6. ^ Hanks, Coates & McClure 2016, p. 494, entry #3
  7. ^ Hanks, Coates & McClure 2016, p. 494, entry #8
  8. ^ Hanks, Coates & McClure 2016, p. 494, entry #5
  9. ^ a b "행정구역(구시군)/성씨·본관별 가구 및 인구" [Family names by administrative region (district, city, county): separated by bon-gwan, households and individuals]. Korean Statistical Information Service. Retrieved 20 October 2018.
  10. ^ a b 성씨 로마자 표기 방안: 마련을 위한 토론회 [Plan for romanisation of surnames: a preparatory discussion]. National Institute of the Korean Language. 25 June 2009. p. 61. Retrieved 20 October 2018.
  11. ^ Hanks, Coates & McClure 2016, p. 495
  12. ^ "How common is your last name?". Newsday. Retrieved 5 September 2018.
  13. ^ "Most common last names for Asians and Pacific Islanders in the U.S." Mongabay. Retrieved 8 January 2018.
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