Din

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Tin in VN Vietnam, ID Indonesia, Tun in MM Myanmar (Burma), ตน์ in TH Thailand and Tanee in SE Sweden.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Din is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• a separate surname67K records spelled Din5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, Pakistan, United States, Malaysia

  Also written Dîn, Dīn, Dín, Ḍīn

• Indonesian surname16K records spelled Din9 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, Malaysia, Indonesia, Pakistan

  Also written Din', Ďïñ, Dïñ, Ďįn, Ďíñ

• French surname5.8K records spelled Din13 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, Spain, India, United States

  Languages: French, Catalan

  Also written Dîn, Dïn, Dín, Dīn, Díñ

• Pashto surname2.9K records spelled Din2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, Pakistan, Malaysia, United Kingdom

  Also written Dīn

• Croatian given name1.2K records spelled Din38 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Croatia, United States, Bulgaria, North Macedonia

  Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Macedonian

  Also written Dean, Деан, Deen, Дин, Deân

58 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Din is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Indonesian, religion (system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In English, The German Institute for Standardization.

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Arabic, religion, faith, belief, diyaana astus. Originally,

  as a name·A Dictionary of Muslim Names

• In Arabic, religion, faith, belief

  as a name·A Dictionary of Muslim Names

• Congolese: 'great.'

  as a name·African Names

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 96 years between 1909–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Ravida Dinb. 1901CADirector General of English-language production at the National Film Board of Canada
• Firoz Dinb. 1960TZbadminton player
• Ayub Khan-Dinb. 1961GBBritish actor and playwright
• Ahmad Shah Din DostAFGovernor of Ghor province
• Torben DinDanish painter
• George DinDEDr.-Ing. Technische Universität Berlin 2008
• Armande Din BellCMpolitician in Cameroon
• Nafees DinGBresearcher

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 515 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Din?

We estimate roughly 355 thousand people bear Din (counting its spellings and scripts) across 16 countries in our records.

In which country does Din have the most bearers?

Din is most frequently recorded in Myanmar (Burma), where it is most often spelled tun.

How common is Din compared with other names?

In Myanmar (Burma), Din is the 6th most common given name of 9,034 given names recorded there.

What does the name Din mean?

Recorded meaning: shortened form from Arabic names based on dīn ‘religion’.