Entry № 11776 · Chinese origin

Yin Yin — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ YEEN /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Chinese
Meaning
"Silver"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "silver".

Yin means silver — bright, precious, gleaming. It carries elegance, worth and a cool shine.

Silver — a Chinese name.

The name in its native script.

Yin
Transliteration
Yin
Pronunciation
/ in /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Yin stands.

Yin does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Yins before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Yin.

The number behind Yin.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Yin reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.