Dïné
surname · Latin script
Dïné 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.
- FRFrance≈1 in 742K(inferred from the name graph)
- DMDominica1 in 74K
- BJBenin≈1 in 350K
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)
- Sources
- 193 (measured from records)
- 1 in 74K (inferred from the name graph)
857 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Dominica
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Dine in FR France, US United States, DZ Algeria and 1 more and Diné in ES Spain.
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)
- Middle Englishdynen(measured from records)
- Old Frenchdisner“to dine“to dine, eat the main meal of the day”(measured from records)
- Vulgar Latin*disiūnāre“to eat breakfast”(measured from records)
- Vulgar Latin root*disieiūnāre“to break the fast”(measured from records)
- LateLatin(measured from records)
- 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
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
- Nordic Names
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Dïné 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.
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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Dïné 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 Dïné have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 857 people named Dïné, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dine.
- Where is Dïné most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Dïné 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 Dïné?
- In the United States, the national register counted 857 people named Dïné in 2010, about 1 in 388 thousand residents.
- How common is Dïné compared with other names?
- In Benin, Dïné is the 566th most common surname of 5,339 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Dïné?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/d%C3%AFn%C3%A9The payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Dïné” — the 566th most common surname in Benin. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.