Given name & surname
Shin
“one having faith and trust”
Shin is used as a given name and a surname. One Korean interpretation is “one having faith and trust.”
Original Korean신
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Korean interpretation is “one having faith and trust.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Korean.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1978. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Shin through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 109
- 97 boys · 12 girls
- Most popular year
- 1985
- 12 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 5 in 2019. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 8 in 1994. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,625 as a first name in 2020; 22,958 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.
Shin’s family of names
Shin has a related form in Shinn. Shin has a related form in Shyn. Shin has a related form in Shynn.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 4
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 12
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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People named Shin
- Shō Shin3rd king of the Ryukyu Kingdom (1465-1526)
- Shin AsahinaJapanese association football playerborn 1976
- Shin YamadaJapanese association football playerborn 2000
- Shin SaburiJapanese actor and film director (1909–1982)
- Shin HirayamaJapanese astronomer (1867–1945)
- Shin KibayashiJapanese mangaka and novelistborn 1962
- Shin TakamatsuJapanese architectborn 1948
- Shin AomoriJapanese voice actorborn 1941
- Shin KanemaruJapanese politician1914–1996
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
Similar names
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