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Re: Shibin (male)
Unfortunately, India is too diverse to hazard a guess. Two pieces of information will help enormously: his linguistic and religious affiliations (i.e., the linguistic and religious affiliation of the group the name possibly originates from, not whether he is a believer :-)
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I asked him for specifics. He is South Indian, the language is Mayalayam and the religion associated should be Marthomite Christian.
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Hi, My name is Shibin too. In my case,my parents decided my name by taking the first few letters from my mothers name and the first one letter from my fathers name.and they never thought about having a particular meaning behind it, and i guess it is the same in the case of most malayalee christians who have names such as Shibin, Jibin, Vibin , Nibin, Tibin, Mebin, Jobin, Tebin, Febin, Libin etc. Moreover, It was kind of a trend that came out after the name sachin as in 'Sachin Tendulkar' became popular with an 'in' in it.
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