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Dinna vs Dinora

American parents have registered 813 Dinoras since 1880, against 170 Dinnas. Dinora is still ahead, with 7 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Dinna against Dinora, 1880 to 2025 0 8 16 24 32 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Dinna Dinora

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 72 years in which either name was published, Dinora for 60 years and Dinna for 12 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Dinna Dinora
Total US births 170813
Most in one year 1028
Babies in 2025 under 57
Estimated living today 150790
Median age today 5932
Peak year 19521992
Best rank 3,552nd girls3,773rd girls
Rank in 2025 unranked11,932nd
First recorded 19521955
Girls / boys 170 / 0813 / 0

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 Dinnas alive today are over 59; half the Dinoras are over 32. That is 27 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: Dinna and Dinora.