Meaning of the surname Chi
Chi is a Maya surname of the indigenous type meaning "mouth". It is a regional surname. About 26,000 to 29,000 people in Yucatán. Sometimes written Chí. Also glossed as a bird by some popular sources.
Maya surnames from Yucatán and Campeche (Pech, Canul, Chan, Ek, May, Uc, Poot, Tun) and Nahuatl surnames from central Mexico. Yucatán is the one region of Mexico where indigenous surnames dominate the top of the list.
In Mexico a person carries two surnames, the father's and then the mother's, so Chi appears as either half of a pair: Chi García, López Chi. Read how the two-surname system works.