Harbin

Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Harbin has been given to 22 babies in the U.S. since 1915. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1915, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Harbin, 2020

1 in 668,000

Harbin over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Harbin: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Harbin means

Harbin is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Harbin is used in Albanian.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 22 boys were recorded with the name Harbin between 1915 and 2020. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1915; its best national rank was #3,583 in 1915.

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.

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How common is Harbin?

Harbin had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2020, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2020: 1 in 668,000; 5 of 3,342,313 births
Among boys only: 1 in 345,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2020: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 463,344 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Harbin sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2020 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 463,344 children born in 2020 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Harbin. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Harbins were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Harbin was born before 2014 — so the typical Harbin is around 11 today.

Median birth year: 2014; About 11 years old
Biggest decade: 2010s; 50.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 72.7%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 16; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2010s — 50.0% of all recorded uses (11).

Is Harbin 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1915 (6)
Years since peak: 110; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Very steady; 0% average annual change
Best rank ever: #3,583; 1915

Spellings of Harbin

Harbin is not the most common spelling — Martin is, with 37.6% against Harbin's <0.01%.

Martin37.6%315,561
Marvin30.2%254,192
Corbin4.9%41,112
Darin3.9%32,546
Darrin3.5%29,615
Harlan3.2%26,481
Darwin3.1%26,347
Marlin2.5%21,172

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.

Harbin by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #3,583; 1915
Peak year: 1915; 6 that year
First recorded: 1915
Last recorded: 2020
All-time count: 22
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Harbin

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

Harjaap Harumi Hardyn Harrey Haruma Hargun Harker Harlym Hartej Hardik Harbaaz Harney Hartaj Harith Harpal Harlowe Harmie Harvir Hartlen Hareld Haresh Hargus Harice Harwin

Sibling names for Harbin

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

For a sister

Golda Lauretta Era Leatha Leone Mayme Artie Alpha

For a brother

Gustave Waldo Orrin Winfield Dorsey Isadore Aloysius Regis

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