Chinni

surname · Hindi · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Chinni is a surname, most frequently recorded in India. In Poland it is the 58th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Hindi and Telugu, written in the Latin script.

rarermore common
  • PLPoland1 in 166◐
  • BYBelarus1 in 1.5K
  • USUnited States1 in 2.4K

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

≈458K ●

across 14 countries

6 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
299 ●

579K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 50 ◐

Lithuania

Spellings & scripts●

JaninaLatin · Polish●1.2M records
ЯнинаCyrillic · Russian●118K records
จรุณThai · Thai●1.1K records
চিহ্নBengali · Bangla●3 records
చిన్నTelugu · Telugu●3 records
잔나Hangul · Korean●2 records

9 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Jeanna in US United States, GB United Kingdom, PH Philippines and 7 more, Janina in PL Poland, CZ Czechia, EC Ecuador and 4 more, Янина in RU Russia, FI Finland, KZ Kazakhstan and 2 more and Chinna in IN India, SG Singapore.

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.

Where in the world●

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

Where Chinni is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India#3161,070,867295K rec.—12KChinna115
PL Poland#58230,753△5.8K rec.1 in 166231KJanina114
US United States—140,60990K rec.1 in 2.4K141KJeanna299
UA Ukraine#152106,865109K rec.—listedЯніна40
RU Russia#31998,85050K rec.—#295Янина138
LT Lithuania—54,191△9 rec.1 in 5054K—4
FI Finland—11,574△141 rec.1 in 48112KЯнина10
TH Thailand—10,8676.2K rec.—#89,116ชนวีร์65
FR France—8,065△3 rec.1 in 8.4K8.1K—3
GB United Kingdom—4,2763.8K rec.—4Jeanna58
EC Ecuador—3,744△38 rec.1 in 4.5K3.7KJanina8
LV Latvia—3,685△16 rec.1 in 5113.7KJanina5

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Hindi18K53%
  • Telugu8K23%
  • English2.7K8%
  • 2.7K8%
  • Spanish9063%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Hindi18,42453%
Telugu7,98723%
English2,7438%
2,6888%
Spanish9063%

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◐

Chinni is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate surname4.4K records spelled Chinni3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States

    Also written Čhinnī, Chinnì

  • English surname4.0K records spelled Chinni5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, Italy, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German

    Also written Chiñni, Ćhïññï

  • Spanish surname1.2K records spelled Chinni4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, United States, India, Chile

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Çhîññî, Chinnì

  • Bangla surname407 records spelled Chinni6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States

    Also written ଚନନୀ

  • Italian surname288 records spelled Chinni3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, India, United States

    Also written Chinnì, Chinní

  • Arabic surname143 records spelled Chinni3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United Arab Emirates, United States, Saudi Arabia, Qatar

    Also written Chinnì

33 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.

Over time●

05101520194019601980200019 · 1962

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Chinni in naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls), India, 1924–2015
Yearrecords
19242
19251
19271
19281
19291
19301
19312
19322
19332
19346
19354
19362
19372
19381
19394
19406
19415
19427
19438
19447
19457
19467
194710
19486
194911
19506
195114
195211
195313
195411
19554
195615
195712
195810
195912
196014
196116
196219
196316
196412
196510
196617
19679
19688
19696
197012
197112
19729
19736
197411
197511
197613
197710
19789
19795
19807
198111
19828
198311
198410
19859
19865
198711
19885
19893
19906
19912
19922
19937
19948
19956
19962
19973
19981
20111
20141
20151

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 77 years between 1924–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 15 sources across 7 countries.

Official registers attesting Chinni
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—8K#273
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—3.3K#2,119
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020324#66,015
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010248#77,264
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000180#94,227
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—62—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)196219—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)196617—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)196316—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)196116—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)195615—
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)202414#47,506

Reference works 1

  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 159 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Chinni?
We estimate roughly 458 thousand people bear Chinni (counting its spellings and scripts) across 14 countries in our records.
In which country does Chinni have the most bearers?
Chinni is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled chinna.
Where is Chinni most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Chinni is densest in Lithuania — about 1 in 50 people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
How common is Chinni compared with other names?
In India, Chinni is the 316th most common given name of 4,777,337 given names recorded there.
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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, “Chinni” — the 316th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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