Bin
An Arabic patronymic at root, meaning "son of". Fewer than a hundred people in Poland carry it, mostly men, and no boy received it last year: most Poles will never meet one.
Bin Pronunciation
Bin is pronounced BEEN (/bin/).
What Bin means
Where Bin comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Bin does one job in Arabic. It links a person to a father, "bin," the small word set between names, as in "bin Laden." The short meaning stays close to that grammar: son, on the father's side.
In China, Bin is something else. It stands alone as a given name, written with a character such as 彬 (bīn), which a dictionary glosses as refined or cultivated. Two distant languages landed on the same three letters.
There are no Polish diminutives for Bin, no Kasia-style softening. It arrives short and stays short. On a form at the urząd it fits the box with room to spare. Whatever line a bearer comes from, the name still means what it meant in Arabic: son of.
How many people are named Bin
1 in 260319 men in Poland is named Bin. 93 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3606 among male names.
Bin as a middle name
Bin is a first name for 93 men in Poland and a middle name for another 59, a 61/39 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 951st, between Tyler (60) and Casimir (59).
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#949 Shankar60
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#950 Tyler60
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#951 Bin59
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#952 Casimir59
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#953 Deni̇z59