Dinah vs Dino
American parents have registered 10,509 Dinahs since 1880, against 9,219 Dinos. But in 2025 it was Dino that was commoner, 45 babies to 34.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Dinah Dino
Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.
Who was ahead
Of the 143 years in which either name was published, Dinah for 84 years and Dino for 59 years. The lead changed hands 25 times.
- 1880–1919 Dinah ahead
- 1922–1934 Dino ahead, apart from one short spell
- 1937–1958 Dinah ahead
- 1959–2005 Dino ahead, apart from 4 short spells
- 2009–2022 Dinah ahead
- 2023–2025 Dino ahead
15 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Dinah | Dino | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 10,509 | 9,219 |
| Most in one year | 346 | 386 |
| Babies in 2025 | 34 | 45 |
| Estimated living today | 8,000 | 7,100 |
| Median age today | 62 | 55 |
| Peak year | 1955 | 1960 |
| Best rank | 488th girls | 404th boys |
| Rank in 2025 | 4,172nd | 2,798th |
| First recorded | 1880 | 1912 |
| Girls / boys | 10,509 / 0 | 0 / 9,219 |
A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.
Which name is older
Half of the Dinahs alive today are over 62; half the Dinos are over 55. That is 7 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Where each one is strongest
- Dinah West Virginia (3.3×), Louisiana (2.7×), Kentucky (2.2×)
- Dino California (2.9×), New York (2.3×), Illinois (1.9×)
How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.
Both names abroad
Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.
| Country | Dinah | Dino |
|---|---|---|
| France | 545 | 1,555 |
| England and Wales | 193 | 204 |
| Switzerland | 53 | 254 |
| Belgium | 5 | 47 |
Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Dinah and Dino.