Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1943. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Bingham through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 124
- 124 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2016
- 13 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #12,292 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −52%
- Cooling
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 12,292 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 13 in 2016. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 203 as a first name in 2020; 25,224 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.
Bingham’s family of names
In English usage, Bingham has a diminutive in BING.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
People named Bingham
- Bingham Baring, 2nd Baron AshburtonBritish politician1799–1864
- Bingham RayAmerican film executive (1954-2012)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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