Dino

given name · Latin script

Meaning, in English: A dinosaur (type of animal)

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/dinoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Dino is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • ITItaly≈1 in 2.8K(inferred from the name graph)
  • PEPeru≈1 in 10K
  • PHPhilippines≈1 in 11K

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.

Italy (inferred from the name graph)

≈22,000 people, est.

Sources
269 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 582 (inferred from the name graph)

Croatia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

a male given name (derived from the abbreviated diminutives as its own form, independent of original diminution)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.

How Dino is read(measured from records)

Dino is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • English39%

    A dinosaur (type of animal).

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • Spanish19%

    obsolete spelling of digno

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

    Italiano; diminutivo de nombres como Bernardino, Corradino, Orlandino, Rinaldino, Aldobrandino o Edoardino.

    as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios

  • Italian8.6%

    a male given name (derived from the abbreviated diminutives as its own form, independent of original diminution)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

    redução popular de nomes em -dino; patronímico de Ser Dino

    as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

  • Croatian8.0%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Dino in Croatian.

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Dino 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 Dino is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IT Italy#476≈22,000 est.≈1 in 2.8K14Dino167
PH Philippines—≈10,000 est.≈1 in 11K—Dino59
US United States—8,3581 in 40K8.3KDino269
HR Croatia—7,2671 in 5827.4K——
PE Peru—≈3,200 est.≈1 in 10K—Dino46
CH Switzerland—≈1,400 est.≈1 in 6.1K4Dino54
SE Sweden—1,2221 in 8.3K1.2K—15
SI Slovenia—5791 in 3.6K584—6

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; ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)

Dino is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name79 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: English, German, Chinese

    Also written Diño, Dano, ดีหนอ, Duno, Dinoe

  • Croatian given name14 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, United States, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Philippines

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Serbian

    Also written Дино, Diño, Dìno, Dinő

  • Indonesian given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia, United States

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Diño

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Diño

  • Hindi given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Pakistan, United Kingdom

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Diño, Dinó

  • Hungarian given name8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Hungary, Philippines, Finland

    Languages: Hungarian, Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Dinó, Diño, Dínó, DÎno

63 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)

Dino 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 Swedish, Dino är från början en italiensk eller spansk kortform till namn som Bernardino (→ Bernhard) och används i många länder som ett självständigt namn.

    as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

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)

1850190019502000Dino Grandi, b. 1895Dino Risi, b. 1916Dinu Lipatti, b. 1917Dino De Laurentiis, b. 1919Dino Zoff, b. 1942Dino Meneghin, b. 1950Dino Merlin, b. 1962Dino Baggio, b. 1971Dino Morea, b. 1975Dino Toppmöller, b. 1980

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)

InformalHi Dino,

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 93 sources across 45 countries.

Official registers attesting Dino
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20208.3K#2,784
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021)20217.4K—
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)20217.3K#148
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—1.2K#1,483
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2020834—
SI Sloveniastat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank)—584#552
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2025579#276
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202047#2,784
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)202545—
IT ItalyISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend)202414#658
SI SloveniaSURS — Najpogostejša imena in priimki (population register)20247—

Reference works 7

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)

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

Where does the name Dino come from?
a male given name (derived from the abbreviated diminutives as its own form, independent of original diminution) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
Is Dino a male or female name?
Dino is a male 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.
What are other forms of the name Dino?
In the etymology graph, Connie, Bernard and Ben are forms of the same name in other languages.
How do you pronounce Dino?
A machine transcription gives /dinoʊ/ (IPA) for English.
What does the name Dino mean?
In English, A dinosaur (type of animal).
In which country does Dino have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 22 thousand people named Dino in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dino.
Where is Dino most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Dino is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 582 people — even though Italy holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Dino?
In the United States, the national register counted 8,358 people named Dino in 2020, about 1 in 40 thousand residents.
How common is Dino compared with other names?
In Italy, Dino is the 476th most common given name of 102,667 given names 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, “Dino” — the 476th most common given name in Italy. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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