Changhai

given name · Chinese · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Changhai is a given name, most frequently recorded in China. It appears chiefly in Chinese and English, written in the Latin script.

rarermore common
  • TWTaiwan1 in 7M
  • CACanada1 in 12M
  • CNChina1 in 12M

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈3

across 1 country

Sources
38

201 records

Official registry-verified

1 in 13M

Poland

Spellings & scripts

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Chang-Hai in TW Taiwan.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Changhai is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CN China28461 rec.Changhai35
US United States7895 rec.Changhai38
TW Taiwan142 rec.Chang-Hai8
ES Spain125 rec.Changhai6
AR Argentina104 rec.3Changhai4
RU Russia85 rec.Changhai4
GB United Kingdom80 rec.Changhai5
CA Canada76 rec.Changhai5
TR Türkiye78 rec.Changhai2
PL Poland31 in 13M3

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Languages

  • Chinese35253%
  • English10516%
  • 6610%
  • French305%
  • Spanish294%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Chinese35253%
English10516%
6610%
French305%
Spanish294%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way

Changhai is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name478 records spelled Changhai6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, China, Australia, Canada

    Languages: English, German

    Also written Chang-Hai

  • a separate given name93 records spelled Changhai2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in China, United States

    Also written Chang-Hai

  • Thai surname14 records spelled Changhai10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Thailand

    Also written ช้างใหญ่, Changyai, แฉ่งใหญ่, ช่างใหญ่, แฉ่งใหญ๋

30 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence

Attested in 3 sources across 2 countries.

Official registers attesting Changhai
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)3#26,567
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)20263#24,122
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror)19733

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 3 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Changhai?
We estimate roughly 3 people bear Changhai (counting its spellings and scripts) across 1 country in our records.
In which country does Changhai have the most bearers?
Changhai is most frequently recorded in China, where it is most often spelled changhai.
Is Changhai a male or female name?
Changhai is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
Query this name via API
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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Changhai”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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