Dineo
given name · English · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Dineo is a given name, most frequently recorded in South Africa. It appears chiefly in English and Swahili, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Gift.
- ZASouth Africa1 in 2.1K◐
- BWBotswana1 in 8.2K
- ISIceland1 in 351K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈1 ●
- Sources
- 68 ●
- 1 in 351K ◐
across 1 country
18K records
Official registry-verified
Iceland
Meaning & origin●
Gift.
Sources 1
- The African book of names
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZA South Africa | #160 | 16,492 | 17K rec. | — | — | Dineo | 68 |
| US United States | — | 267 | 285 rec. | — | — | Dineo | 39 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 42 | 34 rec. | — | — | Dineo | 15 |
| BR Brazil | — | 21 | 1 rec. | — | — | Dineo | 6 |
| AU Australia | — | 12 | 11 rec. | — | — | Dineo | 10 |
| BW Botswana | #140 | 10 | 115 rec. | — | — | Dineo | 8 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 9 | 0 rec. | — | listed | Dineo | 1 |
| FR France | — | 8 | 10 rec. | — | — | Dineo | 7 |
| IS Iceland | — | 1 | — | 1 in 351K | 1 | — | — |
| NG Nigeria | — | — | 1 rec. | — | listed | — | 2 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English8.7K46%
- Swahili2.3K12%
- English (South Africa)1.5K8%
- Chinese8615%
- Southern Sotho7714%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 8,675 | 46% |
| Swahili | 2,271 | 12% |
| English (South Africa) | 1,497 | 8% |
| Chinese | 861 | 5% |
| Southern Sotho | 771 | 4% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Dineo is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In io, supper, dinner (evening meal)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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.
Evidence●
Attested in 3 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2026 | 1 | #38,052 |
| NG Nigeria | The African Book of Names (Hodari, 2003) | — | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | Babynamen — Lijst met meer dan 22.000 namen (Amelia King, 2020) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 3 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Dineo?
- We estimate roughly 1 people bear Dineo (counting its spellings and scripts) across 1 country in our records.
- In which country does Dineo have the most bearers?
- Dineo is most frequently recorded in South Africa, where it is most often spelled dineo.
- How common is Dineo compared with other names?
- In South Africa, Dineo is the 160th most common given name of 215,346 given names recorded there.
- Is Dineo a male or female name?
- Dineo 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 Dineo mean?
- Recorded meaning: Gift.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Dineo” — the 160th most common given name in South Africa. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.