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Bina vs Binh

American parents have registered 1,288 Binas since 1880, against 525 Binhs. Bina is still ahead, with 23 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Bina against Binh, 1880 to 2025 0 10 20 30 40 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Bina Binh

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 122 years in which either name was published, Bina for 99 years and Binh for 23 years. The lead changed hands 6 times.

Side by side

  Bina Binh
Total US births 1,288525
Most in one year 3434
Babies in 2025 23under 5
Estimated living today 770500
Median age today 2336
Peak year 20191984
Best rank 4,162nd girls1,979th boys
Rank in 2025 5,410thunranked
First recorded 18811975
Girls / boys 1,288 / 038 / 487

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Binhs alive today are over 36; half the Binas are over 23. That is 13 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Bina and Binh.