Bina
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A language spoken in New Guinea
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈbinə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bina is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country.
- ESSpain1 in 1.3M(measured from records)
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 3.1Kas Vina
- USUnited States1 in 9.3Kas Van
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 Bina itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Indonesia (inferred from the name graph)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 282 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 22K (inferred from the name graph)
≈86,000 named Vina, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Bangladesh, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Vina in BR Brazil, PH Philippines, SE Sweden, Veena in US United States, DK Denmark, Vani in ID Indonesia and Viña in ES Spain.
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)
A language spoken in New Guinea.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Bina, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bina 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈86,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.1K | listed | Vani | 86 |
| US United States | — | 35,602as Van | 1 in 9.3K | 24K | Veena | 282 |
| BR Brazil | — | 7,426as Vani | 1 in 29K | 9.3K | Vina | 41 |
| BD Bangladesh | #810 | ≈7,400 est. | ≈1 in 22K | listed | Bina | 32 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈6,400 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Vina | 59 |
| SE Sweden | — | 2,101as Van | 1 in 4.9K | 2.1K | Vina | 12 |
| DK Denmark | — | 989as Van | 1 in 5.9K | 930 | Veena | 11 |
| FI Finland | — | 491as Van | 1 in 11K | 1.5K | — | 4 |
| ES Spain | — | 39 | 1 in 1.3M | 2.9K | Viña | 81 |
| IN India | #212 | — | — | 950 | Bina | 219 |
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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Bina Kahnb. 1881CZHolocaust victim (born 1881)
- Bina Elizabeth Martinb. 1900ZABritish born South African botanist, horticulturalist and botanical collector (1900 - 1985)
- Bina Agarwalb. 1951INIndian feminist economist
- Bina Štampe Žmavcb. 1951SIwrites poems, prose and theatre plays
- Beena Paulb. 1961INnot in their usual nameIndian film editor
- Bina Shahb. 1972PKJournalist & writer
- Bina Devib. 1977INIndian mushroom cultivator
- Bina Chirinob. 1994NLpolitician from the Netherlands
- Bina Shaheen SiddiquiPKresearcher
- Bina Sheth LashkariINDoorstep school founder in India
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 73 sources across 37 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2.1K | #7,289 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 118 | #7,626 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 100 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 84 | #39,368 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 79 | #41,307 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 65 | #2,164 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 56 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 41 | #7,184 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 39 | #34,355 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 38 | #15,575 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 28 | #7,289 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 23 | — |
Reference works 7
- 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)
- 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
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
- How do you pronounce Bina?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈbinə/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- What does the name Bina mean, and where does it come from?
- A language spoken in New Guinea. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- 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.
- In which country does Bina have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 86 thousand people named Vina in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Bina?
- In Spain, the national register counted 39 people named Bina, about 1 in 1.3 million residents.
- How common is Bina compared with other names?
- In India, Bina is the 212th most common given name of 3,760,348 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/binaThe 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, “Bina” — the 212th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.