Dina

Spellings & scripts●

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 19 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◐

Dina is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Hindi given name133K records spelled Dina14 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, United States, United Kingdom, Philippines

  Languages: Hindi, Urdu, Nepali

  Also written Dīna, Dīnā, Diňà, Dïnä, Diná

• Indonesian given name96K records spelled Dina12 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Indonesia, United States, Philippines, Malaysia

  Languages: Indonesian, Malay

  Also written 'Dina, Dina', Diña, Ďina, Dinà

• Hebrew given name95K records spelled Dina15 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Israel, Egypt, United States, Morocco

  Languages: Hebrew, Arabic, Amharic

  Also written דינה, דנה, דיינה, Dena, Dinah

• a separate given name85K records spelled Dina10 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, United States, United Kingdom, Canada

  Also written Ḍinā, Dīnā, Ḍīnā, Dìna, Dinå

• Swahili given name14K records spelled Dina7 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Kenya, United States, South Africa, Tanzania

  Languages: Swahili, Southern Sotho, Kinyarwanda

  Also written Dîna, Dįnà

• Khmer given name7.8K records spelled Dina2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, United States, Russia, Kyrgyzstan

  Also written Ḍīṇā

• Romanian given name5.9K records spelled Dina8 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Moldova, United States, Romania, Italy

  Also written Dină, Dínã, Dinà, Dïna, Dînă

65 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●

Dina 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 Portuguese, lunchtime, noon

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

• In Spanish, Hebreo din, 'juicio'; quizá 'juzgada (inocente)'.

  as a name·Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios

• Jacob's daughter

  as a name·Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…

• In Swedish, Dina kan vara en kortform till namn som → Bernhardina eller ett namn bildat till hebreiskans din ’dom; dömande’. Namnet finns även i arabiskan. I Gamla testamentet bärs namnet av en dotter till Jakob. Den engelska formen Dinah finns också i Sverige men är ovanligare.

  as a name·Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

• In Italian, forma feminina de Dino

  as a name·Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

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●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 139 years between 1883–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Dina Merrillb. 1923USAmerican actress (1923–2017)
• Dina Musatovab. 1925RUSoviet documentary film director
• Princess Dina bint Abdul-Hamid Hashemb. 1929JOQueen Consort of Jordan
• Dina Titusb. 1950USU.S. Representative from Nevada
• Dina Boluarteb. 1962PEPeruvian lawyer and politician, president of Peru from 2022 to 2025
• Dina Spybeyb. 1965USAmerican actress
• Dina Meyerb. 1968USAmerican actress
• Dina Shihabib. 1989SASaudi Arabian actress
• Dinä Ğäripeväb. 1991RURussian singer
• Dina Asher-Smithb. 1995GBBritish sprinter

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 · 1,510 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Dina?

We estimate roughly 88 thousand people bear Dina (counting its spellings and scripts) across 14 countries in our records.

In which country does Dina have the most bearers?

Dina is most frequently recorded in Peru, where it is most often spelled dina.

Where is Dina most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Dina is densest in Moldova — about 1 in 859 people — even though Peru holds more of our records for it.

How common is Dina compared with other names?

In Peru, Dina is the 275th most common given name of 221,790 given names recorded there.

Is Dina a male or female name?

Dina is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.

What does the name Dina mean?

Recorded meaning: In part a variant spelling of Dinah, with which it often shares the same pronunciation.