Bín
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Bín is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nepal 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.
- NPNepal1 in 313(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 109K
- INIndia1 in 139K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. 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.
- Nepal (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 16 (measured from records)
- 1 in 313 (inferred from the name graph)
96,974 people, 2021
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Nepal
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)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 in the world
(measured from records)Bín 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.
96,974 people counted by NPHC 2021 — Population by caste/ethnicity group (national), surname-shaped categories only, 2021. 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; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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)Bín is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In bnt-pro, dance; sing
as a wordBantu Lexical Reconstructions 3 (BLR3), Tervuren 2002/2003
In Bambara, grass, weed
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In tyz, chipped
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In bnt-pro, dance
as a wordBantu Lexical Reconstructions 3 (BLR3), Tervuren 2002/2003
In bnt-pro, danser et chanter
as a wordBantu Lexical Reconstructions 3 (BLR3), Tervuren 2002/2003
In bnt-pro, danser
as a wordBantu Lexical Reconstructions 3 (BLR3), Tervuren 2002/2003
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)- Min Chunb. 150not in their usual nameAssistant to Chinese Warlord
- Min Sunb. 536not in their usual nameprominent disciple of Confucius (536–c.487 BC)
- Mindon Minb. 1808MMnot in their usual nameKing of Burma (1808–1878)
- Min Erchangb. 1872not in their usual nameRepublic of China person CBDB = 79146
- Min Guirongb. 1933CNnot in their usual nameChinese thermophysicist
- Min Naibenb. 1935CNnot in their usual nameChinese physicist and politician (1935–2018)
- Yong Soon Minb. 1953USnot in their usual nameAmerican artist (1953–2024)
- Anchee Minb. 1957USnot in their usual nameChinese-American author
- Min Tae-yulb. 1983KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actor
- Grace Minb. 1994USnot in their usual nameUS tennis player
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)1 register or reference work attests this spelling, across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 52 | #28,526 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Bín 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.
- In which country does Bín have the most bearers?
- In Nepal, the national register counted about 97 thousand people named Bín, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Bín most common?
- Bín is densest in Nepal, where the national register counts about 1 in 313 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Bín?
- In Nepal, the national register counted 96,974 people named Bín in 2021, about 1 in 313 residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/b%C3%ADnThe 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, “Bín”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.