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The Chin Surname

Chin Name Meaning and History

  1. English: variant spelling of Chinn.
  2. Chinese : variant of Jin 1.
  3. Chinese : Cantonese variant of Qian.
  4. Chinese : variant of Qin 1.
  5. Chinese : variant of Qin 2.
  6. Chinese : variant of Jin 2.
  7. Chinese : variant of Jin 3.
  8. Korean: there are four Chinese characters for the surname Chin, representing five clans. At least three of the clans have origins in China; most of them migrated to Korea during the Kory{ou} period (ad 918–1392).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of Chin Families in the US in 1920
Number of Chin families
 200-397
 67-199		 1-66
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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