Given name & surname
Jabin
“God has built; one who is perceptive”
Jabin is used as a given name and a surname. One Hebrew interpretation is “God has built; one who is perceptive.”
Original Hebrewיבין
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Hebrew interpretation is “God has built; one who is perceptive.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Hebrew.
How it developed
From the Hebrew verb bin (בין), “to discern.”
From biblical name research
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1966. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
In the Bible
In the Bible, the name Jabin appears in Joshua 11:1, Joshua 11:8.
- Joshua 11:1
- Joshua 11:8
From biblical name research
Jabin through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 626
- 626 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2001
- 41 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #12,773 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −45%
- Cooling
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 12,773 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 41 in 2001. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 627 as a first name in 2020; 201 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.
Jabin’s family of names
Jabin has a related form in Jabon. In Russian usage, Jabin as a surname is a transliteration of Жабин.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
See also 3
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
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