Bin
patronymic · Latin script
Meaning: from the Germanic stem *bīn-/bīn-; cf
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Bin is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 270(inferred from the name graph)
- SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 621
- AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 1.6K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 266 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 270 (inferred from the name graph)
≈230,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Malaysia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Бинь in CN China 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)
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 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bin 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈230,000 est. | ≈1 in 6K | — | Бинь | 161 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈120,000 est. | ≈1 in 270 | — | Bin | 180 |
| NP Nepal | — | 96,974 | 1 in 313 | 97K | — | — |
| BD Bangladesh | #814 | ≈96,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | — | বিন | 106 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈55,000 est. | ≈1 in 621 | — | Bin | 122 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈6,300 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | — | Bin | 114 |
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. 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- 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(measured from records)
Attested in 64 sources across 32 countries.
Reference works 8
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Bin come from?
- from the Germanic stem *bīn-/bīn-; cf. Win(e)wald, likely a short form of a given name Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- What does the name Bin mean?
- Recorded meaning: from the Germanic stem *bīn-/bīn-; cf.
- In which country does Bin have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 232 thousand people named Bin in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled бинь.
- How common is the name Bin?
- In Nepal, the national register counted 96,974 people named Bin in 2021, about 1 in 313 residents.
- How common is Bin compared with other names?
- In Bangladesh, Bin is the 814th most common surname of 12,312 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/binThe 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, “Bin” — the 814th most common surname in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.