In 2025, 168 US girls were named Dina, making it the 1,327th most common girls’ name of the year, up 10 places from #1,337 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 171 girls named Dina in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #199, reached in 1969. That year also had the most girls given the name: 1,572. For comparison, it was #1,456 in 2015 and #835 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Dina in 139 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1883 with 8 babies. In all, 32,097 US babies have been given the name, 99.7% of them girls and 0.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 10,246 babies named Dina.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,771 US girls were named Dina; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 210. In 2025 that was about 1 in 9,567 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Dina ranked highest in New York in 2025, at #260 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Dena (32,535 babies since 1880), Deana (23,476 babies since 1880), Deena (13,671 babies since 1880) and Dinah (10,509 babies since 1880).
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch, Italian and Latvian. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.