Yïn

given name · Latin script

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

Yïn is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Myanmar (Burma) it is the 46th most common given name. Recorded meaning: From early romanizations of Chinese 陰／阴 (yīn), originally used in reference to shaded areas, as of a mountain or home.

rarermore common
  • SESweden1 in 48K(measured from records)
  • USUnited States1 in 92K
  • FIFinland1 in 180K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

3,598 people, 2020

Sources
90 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 48K (inferred from the name graph)

Sweden

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Yin in US United States, MM Myanmar (Burma).

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 early romanizations of Chinese 陰／阴 (yīn), originally used in reference to shaded areas, as of a mountain or home.

Sources 5

  • Wiktionary
  • Chinese Surnames Encyclopedia (Section 2)
  • YorùbáName Dictionary
  • Clauson, An Etymological Dictionary of Pre-Thirteenth-Century Turkish (1972)
  • Schuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007)

Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Yïn 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.

Where Yïn is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—3,5981 in 92K9.7KYin90
SE Sweden—2121 in 48K212—2
ES Spain—651 in 769K1.1K—3
BR Brazil—611 in 3.5M168——
FI Finland—311 in 180K206——
DK Denmark—291 in 202K61——
MM Myanmar (Burma)#46———Yin66

3,598 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; 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); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Yïn is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, China, United Kingdom, Malaysia

    Also written Yin, Yín, Ýin

2 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.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Yïn under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Yïn mean, and where does it come from?
From early romanizations of Chinese 陰／阴 (yīn), originally used in reference to shaded areas, as of a mountain or home. Recorded by Wiktionary and Chinese Surnames Encyclopedia (Section 2) and 3 other sources.
Is Yïn a male or female name?
Yïn is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
In which country does Yïn have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 3.6 thousand people named Yïn, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled yin.
Where is Yïn most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Yïn is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 48 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Yïn?
In the United States, the national register counted 3,598 people named Yïn in 2020, about 1 in 92 thousand residents.
How common is Yïn compared with other names?
In Myanmar (Burma), Yïn is the 46th most common given name of 9,528 given names recorded there.

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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, “Yïn” — the 46th most common given name in Myanmar (Burma). Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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