Dînê

surname · Latin script

Dînê is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Middle English dynen, from Old French disner (“to dine, eat the main meal of the day”), from Vulgar Latin *disiūnāre (“to eat breakfast”), from *disieiūnāre (“to break the fast”), from Late Latin.

rarermore common
  • MAMorocco≈1 in 1.4M(inferred from the name graph)
  • DMDominica1 in 74K
  • USUnited States1 in 388K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

857 people, 2010

Sources
45 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 74K (inferred from the name graph)

Dominica

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Dine in MA Morocco, DZ Algeria, US United States and 1 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Derivation of Dînê: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Dînê
  1. Middle Englishdynen(measured from records)
  2. Old Frenchdisner“to dine“to dine, eat the main meal of the day”(measured from records)
  3. Vulgar Latin*disiūnāre“to eat breakfast”(measured from records)
  4. Vulgar Latin root*disieiūnāre“to break the fast”(measured from records)
  5. LateLatin(measured from records)
  6. Latinieiūnus(measured from records)

From Middle English dynen, from Old French disner (“to dine, eat the main meal of the day”), from Vulgar Latin *disiūnāre (“to eat breakfast”), from *disieiūnāre (“to break the fast”), from Late Latin, from dis- + iēiūnō (“to fast”), from Latin ieiūnus.

Sources 3

Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Dînê counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Dînê is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—8571 in 388K922Dine32
ES Spain—861 in 582K86—12
DZ Algeria#209≈60 est.≈1 in 722KlistedDine31
MA Morocco#524≈25 est.≈1 in 1.4M—Dine45
SA Saudi Arabia—≈12 est.≈1 in 2.8M—Dine7
NO Norway—121 in 456K42——
DM Dominica—11 in 74K1——

857 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Dominica — Revised List of Electors May 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Dînê is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname51 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Morocco, United States, Algeria

    Also written Dine, Diné, Dîne, D'Ine, Dïne

  • English surname31 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, United Kingdom, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Dine, Diñe, Dïnè, Dîne, Diné

2 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(measured from records)

Dînê 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 Kurdish, Lively, devout

    as a wordkurdi.sh Kurdish personal names dictionary

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(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Dînê under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Dînê mean, and where does it come from?
From Middle English dynen, from Old French disner (“to dine, eat the main meal of the day”), from Vulgar Latin *disiūnāre (“to eat breakfast”), from *disieiūnāre (“to break the fast”), from Late Latin… Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
In which country does Dînê have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 857 people named Dînê, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dine.
Where is Dînê most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Dînê is densest in Dominica — about 1 in 74 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Dînê?
In the United States, the national register counted 857 people named Dînê in 2010, about 1 in 388 thousand residents.
How common is Dînê compared with other names?
In Algeria, Dînê is the 209th most common surname of 89,473 surnames recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

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, “Dînê” — the 209th most common surname in Algeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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