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.

Transliteration
Rin
Pronunciation
/ rɪn /
Root
Grammatical form

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

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.