Dínë
surname · Latin script
Dínë is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 857 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010. 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.
- DMDominica1 in 74K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 388K
- NONorway1 in 456K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 193 (measured from records)
- 1 in 74K (inferred from the name graph)
857 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: 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, MA Morocco and 2 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.
Cited for this meaning 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
- Nordic Names
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Dínë is found
(measured from records)Dínë 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 857 | 1 in 388K | 922 | Dine | 38 |
| DZ Algeria | — | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 332K | listed | Dine | 9 |
| FR France | — | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 670K | 126 | Dine | 193 |
| ES Spain | — | 86 | 1 in 582K | 86 | Diné | 8 |
| MA Morocco | — | ≈31 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Dine | 20 |
| BJ Benin | #566 | ≈24 est. | ≈1 in 591K | — | Dine | 15 |
| NO Norway | — | 12 | 1 in 456K | 42 | — | — |
| DM Dominica | — | 1 | 1 in 74K | 1 | — | — |
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 Dínë 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.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Dínë?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 857 people named Dínë, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dine. After it come Algeria, France, Spain and Morocco; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Dínë most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Dínë 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 Dínë?
- In the United States, the national register counted 857 people named Dínë in 2010, about 1 in 388 thousand residents.
- How common is Dínë compared with other names?
- In Benin, Dínë is the 566th most common surname of 5,339 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/d%C3%ADn%C3%ABThe 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, “Dínë” — ranked 27672nd in the United States (Census Bureau). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.