Bîñ
surname · Latin script
Bîñ is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Malaysia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Middle English binne, from Old English binne (“crib, manger”), from Proto-West Germanic *binnu, *binnā, from Gaulish benna (“four-wheeled cart; caisson”) (compare Old Irish buinne, Welsh benn (“c. Bîñ is also written Бин in Cyrillic and বিন in Bengali.
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 280(inferred from the name graph)
- NPNepal1 in 313
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 2.2Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Bîñ itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Malaysia (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 266 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 280 (inferred from the name graph)
≈130,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Malaysia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Bîñ in other scripts: Cyrillic and Bengali
(measured from records)Locally spelled Bin in MY Malaysia, IN India, Bean in US United States and বিন in BD Bangladesh.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)- Middle Englishbinne(measured from records)
- Old Englishbinne“crib“crib, manger”(measured from records)
- Proto-West Germanic*binnu(measured from records)
- Gaulishbenna“four-wheeled cart; caisson”(measured from records)
From Middle English binne, from Old English binne (“crib, manger”), from Proto-West Germanic *binnu, *binnā, from Gaulish benna (“four-wheeled cart; caisson”) (compare Old Irish buinne, Welsh benn (“cart”), Old Breton benn (“caisson”)).
Cited for this meaning 6
- Dizionario dei cognomi italiani
- Wiktionary
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
- Clauson, An Etymological Dictionary of Pre-Thirteenth-Century Turkish (1972)
- Nordic Names
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Bîñ is found
(measured from records)Bîñ counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈130,000 est. | ≈1 in 280 | — | Bin | 180 |
| NP Nepal | — | 96,974 | 1 in 313 | 97K | — | — |
| BD Bangladesh | #814 | ≈77,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | — | বিন | 106 |
| US United States | — | 37,571as Bean | 1 in 8.9K | 38K | Bean | 266 |
| IN India | — | 9,571 | 1 in 139K | 9.6K | Bin | 89 |
| NO Norway | — | 170as Bing | 1 in 32K | 170 | — | 12 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: NPHC 2021 — Population by caste/ethnicity group (national), surname-shaped categories only; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Bîñ mean, and where does it come from?
- From Middle English binne, from Old English binne (“crib, manger”), from Proto-West Germanic *binnu, *binnā, from Gaulish benna (“four-wheeled cart; caisson”) (compare Old Irish buinne, Welsh benn (“c… Recorded by Dizionario dei cognomi italiani and Wiktionary and 4 other sources.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Bîñ?
- Mondonomo estimates about 127 thousand people named Bîñ in Malaysia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bin. After it come Nepal, Bangladesh, United States and India; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Bîñ?
- In Nepal, the national register counted 96,974 people named Bîñ in 2021, about 1 in 313 residents.
- How common is Bîñ compared with other names?
- In Bangladesh, Bîñ is the 814th most common surname of 12,312 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Bîñ?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/b%C3%AE%C3%B1The payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Bîñ” — the 814th most common surname in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.