Qin
A Chinese name meaning "zither", the classical lute. Barely present in Poland: only a couple of dozen people carry it, split across women and men alike, and most Poles will never meet one.
Qin Pronunciation
What Qin means
Where Qin comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
The name Qin comes from Chinese, where the word 琴, romanised qín, names a musical instrument. In English that is the zither or lute. The instrument came first. The character stood for a whole family of stringed instruments long before anyone wore it as a given name.
The best known of them is the guqin, a seven-stringed zither played by Chinese scholars for more than two thousand years. It counted among the four arts of the literati, alongside the board game go, calligraphy and painting. Tradition holds that Confucius himself played the guqin and taught it to his pupils. The instrument was made for solitude more than for a crowd.
Given as a name, Qin keeps the word for that instrument intact. It has no diminutive and no separate variant in the records here. A child written down as Qin on a Polish class register brings a word that means, quite plainly, the zither.
How many people are named Qin
1 in 1252435 women in Poland is named Qin. 22 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #9417 among female names.
Qin as a middle name
Qin is a first name for 22 women in Poland and a middle name for another 2, a 92/8 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 8541st, between Qaisar (2) and Quang Anh (2).