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Bina

#5,433 in 2025Girls' name

Short form of Jakobina

Bina has been given to 1,288 babies in the U.S. since 1881. In 2025 it ranked #5,433 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2019, with 34 recorded.

Babies named Bina, 2025

1 in 144,000

Bina over time, 1880–2025

Girls
01020304018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Bina: meaning, origin, and history

Short form of Jakobina

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Bina means

Bina is a short form of Jakobina.

Origin, language, and formation

Bina is used in Faroese, Lun Bawang and Norwegian Bokmål.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Jakobina and Bine.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Norwegian Bokmål, Bina is pronounced /ˈbiː.na/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,288 girls were recorded with the name Bina between 1881 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 34 in 2019; its best national rank was #660 in 1885.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #7,617 in 2020 to #5,433 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #6,275 in 2015 to #5,433 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Bina?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 144,000
23 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 69,900
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#5,433
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
99,910 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Bina sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 99,910 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Bina. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Binas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Bina was born before 1974 — so the typical Bina is around 51 today.

Median birth year
1974
About 51 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
14.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
31.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
747
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Choose a decade

2010s — 14.9% of all recorded uses (192).

Is Bina rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+771
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+2,184
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+842
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.15×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
67.6%
Peak was 2019 (34)
Years since peak
6
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
37.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#660
1885

Spellings of Bina

Bina is not the most common spelling — Linda is, with 18.8% against Bina's 0.02%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Bina is used

Across 1910–2025, Bina was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 79,925 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in 100,000).

11 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 100,000
  2. 2New York1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Bina has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Bina around the world

Where Bina ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2007–2020
    #5,493
    in 2020
  • Canada
    2022–2022
    #2,896
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    1950–2007
    #803
    in 2007

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Bina by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#5,433
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 2,184
Best rank ever
#660
1885
Peak year
2019
34 that year
First recorded
1881
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,288
Count in 2025
23

Names similar to Bina

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Bina

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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