Genesis 46:10 and Exodus 6:15 name him as a son of Shim'on (Simeon), his siblings were Yemu-El (ימואל), Ohad (אהד), Yachin (יכין), Tsochar (צוחר) and Sha'ul (שאול), "the son of a Kena'ani woman".
Numbers 26:12/13 gives his tribe as the Yamini (ימיני - Jaminites), and a list of sons that echoes the Genesis and Exodus verses, but with Nemu-El instead of Yemu-El, and Ohad missing.
1 Chronicles 4:24 tells us that "the sons of Shim'on were Nemu-El (נְמוּאֵל) and Yamin, Yariv (יָרִיב), Zerach (זֶרַח), Sha'ul..."; for an explanation of this, see my notes to Tsochar.
For links with Bin-Yamin (Benjamin) and the Beney Jamun tribe, see my notes to Bin-Yamin.
Yamin = "right", but was also used for the southern quarter; given that Shim'on inhabited the southern quarter of Kena'an (Canaan), this name may not surprise us.
Nehemiah 8:7 has a Yamin who was one of the Beney Levi who went among the audience to help them understand what they were hearing, when Ezra first presented the newly redacted Torah (the Book of the Law ) to the newly created nation of Yehudah at the Water Gate.
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