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Dinah

#4,197 in 2025Girls' name

Judged, vindicated

Dinah has been given to 10,509 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #4,197 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1955, with 346 recorded.

Babies named Dinah, 2025

1 in 97,500

Dinah over time, 1880–2025

Girls
010020030040018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Dinah: meaning, origin, and history

Judged, vindicated

Hebrew and English

What Dinah means

Dinah means “judged, vindicated”, associated with dīna.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Hebrew דִּינָה (dīna, "judged, vindicated"); see דין.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Dinah (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Dinah is used in English, Cebuano and Lun Bawang. Its origins include Hebrew and English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Dina.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Dinah is pronounced /ˈdaɪnə/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 10,509 girls were recorded with the name Dinah between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 346 in 1955; its best national rank was #487 in 1955.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,157 in 2020 to #4,197 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,896 in 2015 to #4,197 in 2025.

How common is Dinah?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 97,500
34 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 47,300
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#4,197
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
67,586 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Dinah sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 67,586 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dinah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Dinahs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Dinah was born before 1959 — so the typical Dinah is around 66 today.

Median birth year
1959
About 66 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
27.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
12.4%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
7,874
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1950s — 27.6% of all recorded uses (2,903).

Is Dinah rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−286
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,040
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,301
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.57×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
9.8%
Peak was 1955 (346)
Years since peak
70
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
12.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#487
1955

Spellings of Dinah

Dinah is not the most common spelling — Diana is, with 24.9% against Dinah's 0.71%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Dinah is used

Across 1910–2025, Dinah was most concentrated in West Virginia — about 1 in 8,333 girls, against 1 in 23,528 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

012 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1West Virginia1 in 8,333
  2. 2Louisiana1 in 10,000
  3. 3Alabama1 in 12,500
  4. 4Kentucky1 in 12,500
  5. 5Tennessee1 in 14,286
  6. 6Virginia1 in 14,286
  7. 7Mississippi1 in 16,667
  8. 8North Carolina1 in 16,667

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Dinah has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Dinah around the world

Where Dinah ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #4,867
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    1972–1972
    #471
    in 1972
  • France
    1913–2025
    #1,482
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2023
    #2,973
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1946–2010
    #801
    in 2010

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Dinah

People whose public names include Dinah, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Dinah in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Dinah. Linked forms have their own page here.

DinaDeena

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Dinah by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#4,197
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,040
Best rank ever
#487
1955
Peak year
1955
346 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
10,509
Count in 2025
34

Names similar to Dinah

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Dinah

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Dinah, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Dinah

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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