Bina

Where Bina comes from

Bina hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1881
    First appearance
    #830 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1885
    Peak, #658
    11 babies named Bina — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1893
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  4. 1951
    Bina Agarwal born
    Indian feminist economist
  5. 1972
    Bina Shah born
    Journalist & writer
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Bina Agarwal · Indian feminist economist, born 1951
  • Bina Shah · Journalist & writer, born 1972
  • Bina Devi · Indian mushroom cultivator, born 1977
  • Bina Sheth Lashkari · Doorstep school founder in India
  • Bina Štampe Žmavc · writes poems, prose and theatre plays, born 1951

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.