Bin
patronymic · Malay · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Bin is a name, most frequently recorded in Malaysia. It appears chiefly in Malay and Indonesian, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: from the Germanic stem *bīn-/bīn-; cf.
- MYMalaysia1 in 5◐
- PKPakistan1 in 40
- AEUnited Arab Emirates1 in 40
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈147K ●
- 3 ●
- Sources
- 241 ●
- 1 in 313 ◐
across 11 countries
recorded for this name
573K records
Official registry-verified
Nepal
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Бин in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, TR Türkiye, Bing in CN China, NL Netherlands, Бін in UA Ukraine and বিন in BD Bangladesh.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
from the Germanic stem *bīn-/bīn-; cf. Win(e)wald, likely a short form of a given name
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MY Malaysia | — | 1,734,627 | 370K rec. | — | — | Bin | 142 |
| NP Nepal | — | 96,974 | — | 1 in 313 | 97K | — | — |
| US United States | — | 37,571 | 34K rec. | 1 in 8.9K | 38K | Bin | 241 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | 13,301 | 5.9K rec. | — | — | Bin | 113 |
| IN India | — | 9,571 | 58K rec. | 1 in 139K | 9.6K | Bin | 69 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | 4,037 | 3.7K rec. | — | — | Bin | 111 |
| RU Russia | — | 2,675 | 2.3K rec. | — | — | Бин | 84 |
| OM Oman | — | 2,109 | 0 rec. | — | — | Bin | 28 |
| QA Qatar | — | 1,882 | 1K rec. | — | — | Bin | 37 |
| BR Brazil | — | 1,439 | 1.3K rec. | 1 in 147K | 1.4K | — | 77 |
| PK Pakistan | — | 1,082 | 1.8K rec. | — | listed | Bin | 59 |
| BH Bahrain | — | 666 | 237 rec. | — | — | Bin | 35 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Malay1.4M75%
- Indonesian171K9%
- Arabic106K6%
- English59K3%
- Chinese27K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Malay | 1,402,421 | 75% |
| Indonesian | 170,984 | 9% |
| Arabic | 105,859 | 6% |
| English | 58,777 | 3% |
| Chinese | 26,684 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Bin is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Indonesian, son (of)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, forma dialetal setentrional, redução de Bino
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In Italian, Variante di Bini
as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani
In Akan, tin, v. to excite, rouse, stir up; me bo ah. me, my heart is stirred up, my anger has been roused or excited
as a wordDictionary of the Asante and Fante Language called Tshi (Chwee, Twi)
In kr, or biard, ad.; for nothing, in vain, gratuitously, without reward
as a wordKanuri-English Vocabulary (in African Native Literature)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1908 | 1 |
| 1922 | 1 |
| 1932 | 2 |
| 1940 | 2 |
| 1942 | 1 |
| 1943 | 2 |
| 1944 | 2 |
| 1945 | 3 |
| 1946 | 1 |
| 1947 | 1 |
| 1948 | 1 |
| 1950 | 2 |
| 1952 | 3 |
| 1954 | 1 |
| 1955 | 1 |
| 1956 | 2 |
| 1957 | 3 |
| 1958 | 6 |
| 1959 | 2 |
| 1960 | 4 |
| 1961 | 3 |
| 1962 | 3 |
| 1963 | 3 |
| 1964 | 3 |
| 1965 | 5 |
| 1966 | 4 |
| 1967 | 5 |
| 1968 | 7 |
| 1969 | 7 |
| 1970 | 7 |
| 1971 | 8 |
| 1972 | 8 |
| 1973 | 7 |
| 1974 | 7 |
| 1975 | 9 |
| 1976 | 7 |
| 1977 | 8 |
| 1978 | 10 |
| 1979 | 11 |
| 1980 | 10 |
| 1981 | 9 |
| 1982 | 8 |
| 1983 | 12 |
| 1984 | 8 |
| 1985 | 11 |
| 1986 | 9 |
| 1987 | 16 |
| 1988 | 9 |
| 1989 | 17 |
| 1990 | 11 |
| 1991 | 13 |
| 1992 | 9 |
| 1993 | 11 |
| 1994 | 17 |
| 1995 | 7 |
| 1996 | 8 |
| 1997 | 6 |
| 1998 | 1 |
| 2011 | 1 |
| 2012 | 1 |
| 2014 | 1 |
| 2015 | 2 |
IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 62 years between 1908–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Mindon Minb. 1808MMnot in their usual nameKing of Burma (1808–1878)
- Paul Yü Pinb. 1901TWnot in their usual nameChinese cardinal (1901-1978)
- Anchee Minb. 1957USnot in their usual nameChinese-American author
- William Lib. 1974CNnot in their usual namefounder and current CEO of NIO
- Won Binb. 1977KRSouth Korean actor, model
- Hyun Binb. 1982KRSouth Korean actor (born 1982)
- Bianca Binb. 1990BRBrazilian actress
- Feng Binb. 1994CNChinese female discus thrower
- Grace Minb. 1994USnot in their usual nameUS tennis player
- Moonbinb. 1998KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean singer and actor
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 62 sources across 32 countries.
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (Tom II: C-D)
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 347 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Bin?
- We estimate roughly 147 thousand people bear Bin (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
- In which country does Bin have the most bearers?
- Bin is most frequently recorded in Malaysia, where it is most often spelled bin.
- How common is Bin compared with other names?
- In Bangladesh, Bin is the 903rd most common surname of 11,292 surnames recorded there.
- What does the name Bin mean?
- Recorded meaning: from the Germanic stem *bīn-/bīn-; cf.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Bin” — the 903rd most common surname in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.