Given name & surname
Yin
“a silvery woman”
Yin is used as a given name and a surname. One Chinese interpretation is “a silvery woman.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Chinese interpretation is “a silvery woman.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Chinese.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1980. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Yin through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 13
- 0 boys · 13 girls
- Most popular year
- 1980
- 7 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 girls is 6 in 1987. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 7 in 1980. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 3,598 as a first name in 2020; 9,738 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.
Yin’s family of names
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 10
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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People named Yin
- Yin ChangAmerican actressborn 1989
- Hu YinChinese scholar and historian during the Song dynasty1098–1156
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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