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Dino

#2,807 in 2025Boys' name

Counterpart of Dina

Dino has been given to 9,219 babies in the U.S. since 1912. In 2025 it ranked #2,807 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1960, with 386 recorded.

Babies named Dino, 2025

1 in 73,700

Dino over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Dino: meaning, origin, and history

Counterpart of Dina

Italian

What Dino means

Dino is a counterpart of Dina.

Origin, language, and formation

Dino is used in English, Italian, Portuguese and Serbo-Croatian. Its origins include Italian.

Dino comes through Italian Dino.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Dina, Bernardo, Bernardino, Alfredo and Alfredino.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Dino is pronounced /ˈdinoʊ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 9,219 boys were recorded with the name Dino between 1912 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 386 in 1960; its best national rank was #404 in 1960.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,593 in 2020 to #2,807 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,776 in 2015 to #2,807 in 2025.

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 Dino?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 73,700
45 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 38,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,807
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
51,066 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Dino sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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 51,066 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dino. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Dinos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Dino was born before 1967 — so the typical Dino is around 58 today.

Median birth year
1967
About 58 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
30.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
13.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
8,105
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 30.3% of all recorded uses (2,794).

Is Dino 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
−84
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−214
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−31
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
1.05×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
11.7%
Peak was 1960 (386)
Years since peak
65
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#404
1960

Spellings of Dino

Dino is not the most common spelling — Don is, with 19.8% against Dino's 1.1%.

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 Dino is used

Across 1910–2025, Dino was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 10,000 boys, against 1 in 22,472 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

010 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 10,000
  2. 2New York1 in 12,500
  3. 3Illinois1 in 14,286
  4. 4Connecticut1 in 16,667
  5. 5New Jersey1 in 16,667
  6. 6Pennsylvania1 in 16,667
  7. 7Massachusetts1 in 20,000
  8. 8Michigan1 in 20,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Dino has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Dino around the world

Where Dino 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
    1996–2024
    #2,922
    in 2024
  • France
    1908–2025
    #3,970
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #2,134
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1949–2013
    #754
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, 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. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Dino

People whose public names include Dino, 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.

Dino in other languages

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

GardinoBerardino

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

Dino by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,807
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 214
Best rank ever
#404
1960
Peak year
1960
386 that year
First recorded
1912
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
9,219
Count in 2025
45

Names similar to Dino

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

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Names with a curve like Dino

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

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Sibling names for Dino

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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