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Dinnis vs Dinora

American parents have registered 813 Dinoras since 1880, against 86 Dinnises. Dinora is still ahead, with 7 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Dinnis 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 75 years in which either name was published, Dinora for 62 years and Dinnis for 13 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Dinnis Dinora
Total US births 86813
Most in one year 1028
Babies in 2025 under 57
Estimated living today 50790
Median age today 7032
Peak year 19611992
Best rank 2,706th boys3,773rd girls
Rank in 2025 unranked11,932nd
First recorded 19351955
Girls / boys 0 / 86813 / 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 Dinnises alive today are over 70; half the Dinoras are over 32. That is 38 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: Dinnis and Dinora.