Qin (surname)

Qín (秦)

Language(s)	Chinese
Origin
Language(s)	Old Chinese
Word/name	State of Qin
Other names
Derivative(s)	Chin

Qín ([tɕʰǐn]) (秦) is a common Chinese surname. "Qin" is the hanyu pinyin romanization of the surname for Mandarin, the common dialect of China; other romanizations of the surname include Chin and Jin in Mandarin, Ceon and Cheun in Cantonese, and Tần (or Tan when commonly written without accent in ASCII) in Vietnamese. People with this surname are most commonly found in Henan, Shaanxi, Shandong, Sichuan, Hubei and Hebei.^[1] It is the 18th name on the Hundred Family Surnames poem.

Other surnames romanized as "Qin" include 欽/钦.