Given name & surname
Qin
Qin is a surname from Mandarin, ultimately from Old Chinese.
Original Chinese秦
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Qin comes from Mandarin, and ultimately from Old Chinese.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Qin’s family of names
In French usage, Qin as a surname has a conventional equivalent in the Greek form Τσιν. In French usage, Qin as a surname has a conventional equivalent in the Russian form Цинь. In French usage, Qin as a surname has a conventional equivalent in the Ukrainian form Цінь.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Qin has relatives in 6 languages. Lines run from its Chinese roots to each of them.
Chinesewhere Qin comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 3
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 16
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Qin
- Li QinChinese actressborn 1990
- Qin GuanChinese writer and poet1049–1100
- Liang QinChinese fencerborn 1972
- Wang QinChinese athletics competitorborn 1994
- Wen QinCao Wei state general and politician (died 258)250–257
- Tsai ChinTaiwanese singerborn 1957
- Li QinChinese rowerborn 1981
- Hoàng CầmVietnamese poet, writer and playwright (1922–2010)
- Ning QinChinese freestyle skierborn 1992
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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