Subin
UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Subin has been given to 16 babies in the U.S. since 1994. 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 1994, with 5 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 63% boys, 37% girls all-time.
Babies named Subin, 1996
1 in 729,000
Subin over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Subin over time
In 2000, Subin went to 100% girls and 0% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Subin?
Subin had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1996, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1996
- 1 in 729,000
- 5 of 3,646,048 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 379,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1996
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 505,451 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Subin sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1996 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 505,451 children born in 1996 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Subin. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Subins were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Subin was born before 1994 — so the typical Subin is around 31 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 100.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 10
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (10).
Is Subin 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 1994 (5)
- Years since peak
- 31
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Subin
Subin is not the most common spelling — Ruben is, with 59.8% against Subin's <0.01%.
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.
Subin around the world
Where Subin 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.
- South Australia2004–2004#589in 2004
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Subin by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Subin
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Subin
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.