Given name & surname
Kin
“the golden child”·“the golden one”
Kin is used as a given name and a surname. Interpretations include “the golden child” (Japanese) and “the golden one” (Japanese). These may reflect different naming traditions.
Original Japanese琴
Meaning & origin
What it means
Interpretations include “the golden child” (Japanese) and “the golden one” (Japanese). These may reflect different naming traditions.
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Japanese.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1935. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Kin through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 277
- 271 boys · 6 girls
- Most popular year
- 1982
- 14 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2023. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 10 in 1989. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 3,138 as a first name in 2020; 1,565 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Kin’s family of names
In Walloon usage, Kin as a surname shares a linguistic root with the French form Quin. In English usage, Kin has a related form in Jin. Kin has a related form in Kyn.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Kin has relatives in 4 languages. Lines run from its Japanese roots to each of them.
Japanesewhere Kin comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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