Bina

given name · Hindi · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Bina is a given name, most frequently recorded in India. It appears chiefly in Hindi and Bangla, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: A language spoken in New Guinea.

rarermore common
  • VEVenezuela1 in 1.6K◐
  • INIndia1 in 2K
  • UYUruguay1 in 7.1K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈35K ●

across 8 countries

5 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
253 ●

880K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 4.9K ◐

Sweden

Spellings & scripts●

VeenaLatin · Hindi●605K records
비나Hangul · Korean●229 records
ВинаCyrillic · Russian●148 records
ไบน่าThai · Thai●1 records
ΒίναGreek · Greek●0 records

3 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Veena in IN India, US United States, GB United Kingdom and 7 more, Viña in VE Venezuela, AR Argentina, ES Spain and 4 more, Vina in PH Philippines, SE Sweden, FI Finland and 2 more and Vani in BR Brazil, ID Indonesia, MY Malaysia and 1 more.

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●

A language spoken in New Guinea.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Bina is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India#1841,662,099755K rec.—950Veena204
US United States—24,12154K rec.1 in 14K24KVeena253
VE Venezuela—16,70615K rec.——Viña24
PH Philippines—8,4714.9K rec.——Vina54
BR Brazil—7,426△475 rec.1 in 29K9.3KVani40
AR Argentina—5,4625.1K rec.—8.4KViña31
GB United Kingdom—4,4613.7K rec.—listedVeena85
ID Indonesia—3,6551.4K rec.—#44Vani80
PE Peru—2,5492.1K rec.——Viña17
AU Australia—2,2993.4K rec.—9Veena87
MY Malaysia—2,2623.6K rec.—3Vani30
SE Sweden—2,101△207 rec.1 in 4.9K2.1KVina11

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Hindi328K74%
  • Bangla36K8%
  • English23K5%
  • Indonesian9.7K2%
  • Khmer5.5K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Hindi328,02674%
Bangla36,3318%
English23,3475%
Indonesian9,6932%
Khmer5,5241%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Bina is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name39K records spelled Bina12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, United Kingdom, Germany

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Binā', Bína, Bîna, Bînå, Biña

  • Portuguese given name12K records spelled Bina17 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, India, United States, Spain

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

    Also written Biña, Biná, Bįñå, Bįnã, Bïnä

  • Czech surname4.8K records spelled Bina6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia, India, United States, Slovakia

    Languages: Czech, Slovak

    Also written Bína, Bíňa, Biňa

  • a separate given name4.5K records spelled Bina7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, United Kingdom, Canada

    Also written Biña, Bīnā, Binā, Bînă, Bīṇā

  • Arabic given name3.9K records spelled Bina3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia

    Languages: Arabic, Amharic

    Also written ቢና

  • French given name3.7K records spelled Bina12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, India, United States, Spain

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Bïnä, binÂ, Bînâ, Bîna, Biña

  • Turkish given name3.5K records spelled Bina4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, India, Turkmenistan, United States

    Languages: Turkish, Turkmen, Azerbaijani

    Also written Bînä

45 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Bina 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.

  • intelligence; Rome, Livorno

    as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…

  • In Italian, forma feminina de Bino

    as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

  • In German, from the river name NB.

    as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

  • In Italian, Variante di Bini

    as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani

  • 1 Jewish (Yiddish): from the Yiddish vocabulary word bin(e) bee. This was used as a translation of the Hebrew name Devorah (see DEBORAH ), meaning ‘bee’. However, it was often taken as being from Hebrew bina understanding. 2 Among Gentiles, it occasionally occurs as an aphetic short form of ALBINA . Variants: Binah, Bine. Pet form: Binke . Top

    as a word

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●

01020304019001950200034 · 2019

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Bina in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1881–2025
Yearrecords
18815
18835
18845
188511
18866
18878
18886
18896
18909
18916
18928
18957
18969
18978
189810
18999
190015
19029
19037
19056
19065
19076
19087
19099
19117
19127
191312
191415
191523
191611
191710
191810
191913
19209
192117
19227
192311
192413
192513
192612
192711
192814
192920
19307
193113
193213
193311
19349
19378
19388
194013
19415
19435
19447
19455
19488
194912
19516
19525
19537
19546
19559
195611
19575
19627
19647
19676
19688
196910
19739
19747
197515
197614
197710
19789
197912
19808
19818
19829
198311
198414
198510
19865
198711
198816
19896
19906
199111
19927
199310
19947
199512
19966
19978
19986
20006
200115
200212
20039
20049
20056
200612
200711
200812
200922
20108
201114
201217
201315
201417
201520
201615
201730
201822
201934
202014
202115
202219
202317
202419
202523

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 121 years between 1881–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1850190019502000Bina Kahn, b. 1881Bina Elizabeth Martin, b. 1900Bina Agarwal, b. 1951Bina Štampe Žmavc, b. 1951Beena Paul, b. 1961Bina Shah, b. 1972Bina Devi, b. 1977Bina Chirino, b. 1994

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 70 sources across 36 countries.

Official registers attesting Bina
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—2.2K#4,412
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20202.1K#7,289
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020201K#25,173
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010930#26,261
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000907#25,564
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—228—
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—180#19,046
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—128#6,588
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—118#7,626
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022100—
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—84#39,368
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—79#41,307

Reference works 6

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia surname 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 · 443 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Bina?
We estimate roughly 35 thousand people bear Bina (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
In which country does Bina have the most bearers?
Bina is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled veena.
How common is Bina compared with other names?
In India, Bina is the 184th most common given name of 4,777,337 given names recorded there.
Is Bina a male or female name?
Bina is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Bina mean?
Recorded meaning: A language spoken in New Guinea.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

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, “Bina” — the 184th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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