Chinta

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Cinta in ES Spain, HK Hong Kong and Chintha in LK Sri Lanka.

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.

Languages●

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◐

Chinta is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Hindi surname20K records spelled Chinta13 spellings in the group

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

  Languages: Hindi, Telugu, Swahili

  Also written Chintha, Chinthaa, చింతా, చింత, Chinth

• English given name9.0K records spelled Chinta7 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, United States, Malaysia, Australia

  Languages: English, German, Dutch

  Also written Çhīñtà, Chïnta, Chin-Ta

• Chinese given name475 records spelled Chinta3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, United States, Taiwan, Malaysia

  Also written Chin-Ta

• Arabic given name373 records spelled Chinta4 spellings in the group

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

  Also written Chînta, Çhîñtà, Chínta

• Japanese given name222 records spelled Chinta2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, Japan, Malaysia

32 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.

Other recorded senses●

Chinta is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Spanish, jacks; knucklebones; jackstones

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 105 years between 1899–2016. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Chintha Deekshithulub. 1891INnot in their usual nameTelugu writer

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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 217 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Chinta?

We estimate roughly 1.8 thousand people bear Chinta (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.

In which country does Chinta have the most bearers?

Chinta is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled chinta.

How common is Chinta compared with other names?

In India, Chinta is the 619th most common given name of 4,777,337 given names recorded there.

Is Chinta a male or female name?

Chinta is a female 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.