How rare is the name Dina?

39,715 people in the United States have the first name Dina, about 1 in 7,605. It ranks #1,054 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

DINA

#1,054

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
39,715
About
1 in 7,605
This common or more
70.8%
Who bears it

Of the 39,715 people named Dina, 62.6% reported their origin as White, 24.3% as Hispanic or Latino and 5.8% as Black. Virtually all are female (99.6%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Dina peaked in 1969, when 1,581 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
18832025
Peak year
1969
Births that year
1,581
In 2025*
168 ▼89%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 32,097 babies have been given the name since 1883. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Dina by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1960s, when it ranked #518. The largest share of babies named Dina, 45.1%, were born between 1965 and 1980, Generation X's birth years.

1880s#2,00831
1890s#1,90271
1900s#1,936100
1910s#2,031315
1920s#2,258396
1930s#2,192366
1940s#1,720687
1950s#1,2811,689
1960s#51810,246
1970s#5588,068
1980s#1,0633,340
1990s#1,5892,225
2000s#2,2051,797
2010s#2,4821,674
2020s#2,3771,092
Before 19010.4%
Greatest Generation 1901–272.3%
Silent Generation 1928–452.5%
Baby boom 1946–6419.6%
Generation X 1965–8045.1%
Millennials 1981–9614.2%
Generation Z 1997–129.1%
2013 and later7%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Dina is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Dina has been most common in New York (3×), New Jersey (2.9×), and Rhode Island (1.7×), and least common in Mississippi (0.18×).

27,516 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Spelled almost the same

8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Dina, most common first.

Also a last name

As a last name, Dina ranks #27,085 of 156,621, with 945 people. See Dina as a last name

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