Dinna

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Dinna has been given to 170 babies in the U.S. since 1952. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1952, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Dinna, 1994

1 in 743,000

Dinna over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Dinna: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Dinna means

Dinna is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Dinna is used in Faroese.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 170 girls were recorded with the name Dinna between 1952 and 1994. Its highest annual count was 10 in 1952; its best national rank was #3,608 in 1952.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Dinna?

Dinna had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1994, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1994: 1 in 743,000; 5 of 3,715,972 births
Among girls only: 1 in 357,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1994: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 515,144 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Dinna 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 1994 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 515,144 children born in 1994 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dinna. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Dinnas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Dinna was born before 1965 — so the typical Dinna is around 60 today.

Median birth year: 1965; About 60 years old
Biggest decade: 1960s; 36.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 36.5%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 170; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1960s — 36.5% of all recorded uses (62).

Is Dinna 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1952 (10)
Years since peak: 73; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 25.2% average annual change
Best rank ever: #3,608; 1952

Spellings of Dinna

Dinna is not the most common spelling — Linda is, with 23.4% against Dinna's <0.01%.

Linda23.4%1,455,143
Anna14.7%914,859
Donna13.4%831,641
Diane8.3%518,651
Diana5.9%368,487
Tina4.7%292,146
Dana3.1%193,555
Gina2.5%153,057

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.

Dinna around the world

Where Dinna 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.

France
1925–2019
#5,106
in 2019

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Dinna by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #3,608; 1952
Peak year: 1952; 10 that year
First recorded: 1952
Last recorded: 1994
All-time count: 170
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Dinna

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

Manna Fenna Menna Ahnna Ionna Kanna Olanna Dinia Ohanna Zienna Syenna Cionna Inanna Zeanna Olenna Lunna Eyanna Zhanna Nianna Dinora Zenna Venna Mionna Geonna

Sibling names for Dinna

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

For a sister

Randy Oralia Kathlyn Louann Celestine Nanci Charmaine Marita

For a brother

Val Artis Jacky Ike Williams Stanton Rogers Stanford

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