Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2000. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Bin through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 11
- 11 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2007
- 6 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 6 in 2007. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 4,529 as a first name in 2020; 675 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.
Bin’s family of names
In Thai usage, Bin is a Roman-alphabet rendering of บิล. In Greek usage, Bin as a surname is a transliteration of Μπιν. In English usage, Bin as a surname was borrowed from the Chinese form 賓.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Bin has relatives in 4 languages. Lines run from its Chinese roots to each of them.
Chinesewhere Bin comes from · 1 name
Spellings & scripts 3
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 6
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Bin
- MoonbinSouth Korean singer and actor1998–2023
- Feng BinChinese female discus throwerborn 1994
- Won BinSouth Korean actor, modelborn 1977
- Li BinChinese politicianborn 1954
- Bin AkaoJapanese ultranationalist political activist (1899–1990)
- Wu BinChinese painter (1573-1620)1543–1620
- Bin UedaJapanese writer (1874–1916)
- Benjamin Zhang BinChinese comics artistborn 1974
- Yang BinChinese businessman and tax evaderborn 1963
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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