Entry № 8730 · Other origin

Rin Rin — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Cold / dignified"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Ancient (Japanese)

A name that means "cold / dignified".

Rin is from the Japanese 凛 — cold, dignified, severe. Rin is one of the Japanese feminine names — central to traditional Japanese aesthetics emphasizing the concept of rin to shita (refined, dignified bearing).

Cold / dignified (Japanese).

The name in its native script.

凛
Transliteration
Rin
Pronunciation
/ rɪn /
Root
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Grammatical form
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Where Rin stands.

Rin 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.

Rins before her.

Real people

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In fiction
Rin (Inuyasha)
Inuyasha Sesshomaru's wife.
1996

Names connected to Rin.

The number behind Rin.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Rin reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.