Dinah
Dinah is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 38 births. Its best rank was 488th, in 1955.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 380.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1955346 births
- Best rank
- #488in 1955
- Since 1880
- 10,475people given the name
The story in the numbers
10,475 girls have been named Dinah in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1955, with 346 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1958, and the 1950s alone account for 28%. It has spent 42 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Dinah | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 83 | |
| 1890s | 87 | |
| 1900s | 113 | |
| 1910s | 227 | |
| 1920s | 244 | |
| 1930s | 289 | |
| 1940s | 1,592 | |
| 1950s | 2,903 | |
| 1960s | 1,626 | |
| 1970s | 836 | |
| 1980s | 628 | |
| 1990s | 509 | |
| 2000s | 619 | |
| 2010s | 502 | |
| 2020s | 217 |
In 1955, its biggest year
Dinah was the 488th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1955 were Mary, Deborah, Linda, Debra and Susan. See all of 1955.
Names that rose and fell with Dinah
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Cherrypeak 1947
- Cindapeak 1953
- Jeaniepeak 1957
- Betsypeak 1959
- Carlottapeak 1948
- Deepeak 1961
- Susanpeak 1955
- Kathleenpeak 1951
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.