Dinah
A girls’ name of Hebrew origin, meaning judged or vindicated.
Dinah by the numbers
In 2025, 4 babies in England and Wales were named Dinah. In the US, 51 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
For the size of the two countries, it is given noticeably more often in the US than in England and Wales.
Its American peak was 346 babies in 1955, so it is a 1950s name that has since fallen a long way.
Names that come from Dinah
Forms of Dinah in other languages, names built from it, and names that mean a son or daughter of it. Not always the same sex.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Dinah. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Dinajudged; a form of Dinah175 in the US (2017)
- Danahgod is my judge; a form of Danielle or Dana5 in England and Wales (2025)
- Dynahjudged by God; variant of Dinah5 in the US (2017)
- Dianadivine, of the goddess Diana1,358 in the US (2017)
- Danaeparched, dry; mythological figure in Greek tradition85 in the US (2017)
- Dainasong14 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Dinah
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