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#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201881peak #533, 1881boys
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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.

Where Chin is popular in 1881

The SSA only publishes names by state from 1910 on.

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
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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 1881

boys
#533
11 births · 1 in 9,158 boys

Top boys' names in 1881

  1. #1John8,768
  2. #2William8,524
  3. #3James5,441
  4. #4George4,664
  5. #5Charles4,636
  6. #6Frank2,834
  7. #7Joseph2,456
  8. #8Henry2,339
  9. #9Thomas2,282
  10. #10Edward2,177
  11. #533Chin11
More about 1881

boys

100,735 boys got a published name in 1881; 1 in 9,158 of them was named Chin, which outranked 46.5% of the 996 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 43.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Chin
  1. #503Thaddeus12
  2. #503Tim12
  3. #503Winfred12
  4. #533Chin11
  5. #533Alton11
  6. #533Asbury11
  7. #533Bart11
  8. #563Alonza10
  9. #563Artie10
  10. #563Bee10

Tied with 29 names at #533; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1880
Risers
  1. ↑ 491Noble#809 → #318
  2. ↑ 449Ivy#909 → #460
  3. ↑ 449Buck#909 → #460
  4. ↑ 376Chin#909 → #533
  5. ↑ 376Ransom#909 → #533
Fallers
  1. ↓ 431Neil#350 → #781
  2. ↓ 378Alvah#403 → #781
  3. ↓ 361Webster#505 → #866
  4. ↓ 356Melville#425 → #781
  5. ↓ 316Hector#465 → #781

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

See the top 100 for 1881 →