girls:
31.7k births since 1883
#794 (86th percentile)
boys:
76 births since 1963
#4510 (2nd percentile)
overall:
31.7k births since 1883
#1426 (82nd percentile)
The name Dina is the #1,426 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 31,749 recorded births since 1883. This represents the 81.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 81.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #794 (86.1% percentile) for all time with 31,673 births since 1883. For boys, it ranks #4,510 (1.6% percentile) for all time with 76 births since 1963.
Dina first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1883 (1883 for girls and 1963 for boys). Birth data for Dina is available in 137 out of the 141 years between 1883 and 2023 (137 years for girls and 11 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Dina has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.8% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Dina reached its peak popularity in 1969, achieving the 74.3% percentile (ranked #197) with 891 births per million. The name was most common in 1969, with 891 births per million (ranked 74.3% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2017, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Dina ranks #747 for girls (21.1% percentile) with 117 births per million, which is 13.1% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Dina reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 0.8% percentile (ranked #751) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1970, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.8% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1990.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Dina".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Dina. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 66.0% confident that Dina is pronounced as DEE-nuh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is DAI-nuh, at 34.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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