Dina
Dina reached its high-water mark in 1969 at number 199, and has been recorded 32,097 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 1,326th. About 29,000 Dinas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 53.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Dina boys named Dina
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 32,097
- Estimated living today
- 29,000
- Median age today
- 53
- Peak year
- 1969
- Best rank
- 199th
- Rank in 2025
- 1,326th
- First recorded
- 1883
- Girls / boys
- 32,021 / 76
How old the living Dinas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 32,097 babies given the name since 1883, about 29,000 are alive — 89 in every hundred. Roughly 3,100 of them are children and 2,300 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1972 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Hebrew
Equivalent of the biblical name Dinah in several European languages, ultimately from Hebrew דִּינָה.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Dinas
- Dina Boluarte (born 1962)Peruvian lawyer and politician, president of Peru from 2022 to 2025
- Dina Titus (born 1950)U.S. Representative from Nevada
- Dina Korzun (born 1971)Russian actress
- Dina (1956–2019)Portuguese singer
People named Dina with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Dina is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Dina is most concentrated in New York (3.0×), New Jersey (2.9×), Rhode Island (1.7×), California (1.6×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1969
The most popular girls’ names the year Dina peaked:
Dina elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Dina +2 spellings | 10,025 | 147th |
| Norway girls | Dina | 2,419 | 52nd |
| Belgium girls | Dina | 2,190 | 83rd |
| England and Wales girls | Dina | 949 | 767th |
| Italy girls | Dina | 756 | — |
| Switzerland girls | Dina | 467 | 280th |
| Poland girls | Dina | 20 birth registrations | 372nd |
| France boys | Dina | 10 | 2,510th |
| Ireland girls | Dina | 10 | 747th |
| Scotland girls | Dina | 3 | 809th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Dina: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Dina | 360 | 0.029% | 244th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Dina | 101 | 0.023% | 221st |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Dina | 5 | 0.008% | 170th |
| Romansh girls | Switzerland | Dina | 1 | 0.027% | 15th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Dina is most concentrated in Geneva, where 0.03% of children were given it – 35 of them.
Dina: rank by region
In 2025, Dina was given 5 times or more in 3 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Dina | 184 | 30 |
| Wallonia | Dina | 141 | 18 |
| Brussels | Dina | 65 | 14 |
In 2004, Dina was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Spain.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Melilla | Dina | 4 | 9 |
In 2019, Dina was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Dina | 10 | 1 |
In 2022, Dina was given 2 times or more in 1 region of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mazowieckie | Dina | 326 | 2 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Dina appears in the lists for Province of Hainaut (64th), Brussels-Capital Region (65th), Province of Antwerp (149th), Province of West Flanders (160th), Province of East Flanders (171st) and Province of Flemish Brabant (193rd).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Spain after 10 names, Italy after 10 names, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Dina by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 11 | 339th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Dina among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands girls | Dina | 8,789 | 14,268 |
| Finland girls | Dina | 295 | 330 |
| the Netherlands boys | Dina | — | 72 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Dina lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 4,729 women called Dina were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Melilla | Dina | 223 | 5.150 | 26 |
| Ceuta | Dina | 174 | 4.201 | 43 |
| Almería | Dina | 177 | 0.469 | 273 |
| Girona | Dina | 186 | 0.449 | 293 |
| Tarragona | Dina | 181 | 0.414 | 309 |
| Barcelona | Dina | 944 | 0.310 | 327 |
Listed in 50 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 2 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Dina against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.