How rare is the name Dinah?

8,508 people in the United States have the first name Dinah, about 1 in 35,500. It ranks #2,749 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

DINAH

#2,749

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
8,508
About
1 in 35,500
This common or more
80.7%
Who bears it

Of the 8,508 people named Dinah, 59.2% reported their origin as White, 19.6% as Black and 8.5% as Hispanic or Latino. Virtually all are female (99.9%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Dinah peaked in 1955, when 346 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
18802025
Peak year
1955
Births that year
346
In 2025*
34 ▼90%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 10,509 babies have been given the name since 1880. 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.

Dinah by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1950s, when it ranked #956. The largest share of babies named Dinah, 45.7%, were born during the baby boom (1946–1964).

1880s#1,38183
1890s#1,72587
1900s#1,799113
1910s#2,465227
1920s#3,069244
1930s#2,512289
1940s#1,0861,592
1950s#9562,903
1960s#1,3771,626
1970s#2,165836
1980s#2,932628
1990s#4,204509
2000s#4,647619
2010s#5,642502
2020s#6,356251
Before 19011.8%
Greatest Generation 1901–275%
Silent Generation 1928–4510.5%
Baby boom 1946–6445.7%
Generation X 1965–8013.6%
Millennials 1981–968.7%
Generation Z 1997–128.8%
2013 and later5.8%

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 Dinah is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Dinah has been most common in West Virginia (3.3×), Louisiana (2.7×), and Kentucky (2.2×), and least common in New Jersey (0.24×).

6,153 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.

Either side of Dinah

#2,747 Bettye · 8,510#2,748 Nikhil · 8,509#2,750 Dominik · 8,499#2,751 Nilda · 8,491

Spelled almost the same

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

#1,054 Dina · 39,715#5,508 Dinh · 3,101#20,724 Dianah · 496

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