Dyna
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Obsolete form of dinar
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/dinə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Dyna is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 36K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 568K
- MWMalawi≈1 in 27K
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 168 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 27K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Malawi, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Obsolete form of dinar.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Dyna 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | — | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 36K | — | Dyna | 52 |
| MW Malawi | #419 | ≈790 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Dyna | 4 |
| US United States | — | 586 | 1 in 568K | 562 | Dyna | 168 |
| DZ Algeria | — | ≈380 est. | ≈1 in 114K | listed | Dyna | 7 |
| KE Kenya | — | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 195K | — | Dyna | 8 |
| ZM Zambia | — | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 132K | — | Dyna | 5 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈56 est. | ≈1 in 177K | — | Dyna | 10 |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the dz-kaggle-names register. 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Dyna is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Powerful; see Dinah
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In Swedish, a cushion (for use as a seat or backrest, for lying on, or the like – most commonly rectangular – compare kudde)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Bokmål, definite feminine singular of dyne (Etymology 1)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Welsh, there is, there's; there are
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Nynorsk, definite singular of dyne
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Dyna Beumerb. 1856BEDutch singer (1856-1933)
- Dyna Gauzyactress
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 31 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 562 | #18,408 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 24 | #18,408 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1967 | 13 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1970 | 10 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1996 | 9 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1980 | 9 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1973 | 9 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2009 | 8 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2008 | 8 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1985 | 8 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1968 | 8 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2023 | 7 | — |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Dyna mean, and where does it come from?
- Obsolete form of dinar. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Dyna?
- A machine transcription gives /dinə/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Dyna a male or female name?
- Dyna is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Dyna have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.0 thousand people named Dyna in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dyna.
- How common is the name Dyna?
- In the United States, the national register counted 586 people named Dyna in 2020, about 1 in 568 thousand residents.
- How common is Dyna compared with other names?
- In Malawi, Dyna is the 419th most common given name of 3,102 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Dyna?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/dynaThe 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, “Dyna” — the 419th most common given name in Malawi. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.