Dīñ
surname · Latin script
Dīñ is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Old Swedish þīn, from Old Norse þínn, from Proto-Germanic *þīnaz.
- INIndia1 in 220K(measured from records)
- GYGuyana1 in 42K
- NONorway1 in 64K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 30 (measured from records)
- 1 in 42K (inferred from the name graph)
6,034 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Din in IN India, PK Pakistan, 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)- Old Swedishþīn(measured from records)
- Old Norseþínn(measured from records)
- Proto-Germanic*þīnaz(measured from records)
From Old Swedish þīn, from Old Norse þínn, from Proto-Germanic *þīnaz.
Cited for this meaning 7
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
- Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Dīñ 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | — | 6,034 | 1 in 220K | 6K | Din | 15 |
| US United States | — | 1,650 | 1 in 202K | 1.9K | Din | 30 |
| ES Spain | — | 528 | 1 in 95K | 528 | Din | 2 |
| BR Brazil | — | 173 | 1 in 1.2M | 173 | — | 1 |
| NO Norway | — | 86 | 1 in 64K | 86 | — | 2 |
| DK Denmark | — | 77 | 1 in 76K | 77 | — | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 48 | 1 in 175K | 48 | — | 3 |
| GY Guyana | — | 18 | 1 in 42K | 18 | — | — |
| PK Pakistan | #455 | — | — | — | Din | 19 |
6,034 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; 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); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 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 Dīñ mean, and where does it come from?
- From Old Swedish þīn, from Old Norse þínn, from Proto-Germanic *þīnaz. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Wiktionary and 5 other sources.
- In which country does Dīñ have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 6.0 thousand people named Dīñ, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled din.
- Where is Dīñ most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Dīñ is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 42 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Dīñ?
- In India, the national register counted 6,034 people named Dīñ, about 1 in 220 thousand residents.
- How common is Dīñ compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Dīñ is the 455th most common surname of 51,489 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/d%C4%AB%C3%B1The 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, “Dīñ” — the 455th most common surname in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.