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Dina

As a girl's name, Dina traces back to Hebrew, where it is understood to mean "Hebrew, judged, vindicated". It is not as common as it was in the 1960s, though it has not disappeared. Today, it is comfortably in the mainstream in the registry. Its single strongest year on record was 1969.

EtymologyVariant of Dinah
HebrewHebrew – "judged, vindicated"
Births by decade
1900s
100
1910s
315
1920s
396
1930s
366
1940s
686
1950s
1,690
1960s
10,242
1970s
8,070
1980s
3,338
1990s
2,224
2000s
1,796
2010s
1,329
Peaked in the 1960s · 30,552 total U.S. births since 1900