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Dinero vs Dinnis

American parents have registered 547 Dineros since 1880, against 86 Dinnises. Dinero is still ahead, with 40 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Dinero against Dinnis, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Dinero Dinnis

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 38 years in which either name was published, Dinero for 25 years and Dinnis for 13 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Dinero Dinnis
Total US births 54786
Most in one year 7310
Babies in 2025 40under 5
Estimated living today 54050
Median age today 570
Peak year 20221961
Best rank 2,060th boys2,706th boys
Rank in 2025 3,036thunranked
First recorded 19851935
Girls / boys 0 / 5470 / 86

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 Dinnises alive today are over 70; half the Dineros are over 5. That is 65 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Dinero and Dinnis.