Dein

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Dein is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 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.

• English55%

  present participle of de

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• Arabic16%

  No dictionary in our sources glosses Dein in Arabic.

• German8.4%

  your

  as a word·A Frequency Dictionary of German

  genitive singular of du

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• Spanish5.1%

  No dictionary in our sources glosses Dein in Spanish.

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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Dein is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Spanish surname5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Philippines, United States, Brazil, Argentina

  Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

  Also written Deiñ, Deín

44 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.

Dein is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Dutch, a neighbourhood of Willemstad, Curaçao

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Finnish, instructive plural of dee

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Irish, Munster form of déan

  as a word·kaikki.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.

• Paul Louis Marie Deinb. 1768FRFrench officer (1768-1831)
• Louis Deinb. 1819FRFrench politician (1819–1886)
• Dick Deinb. 1889AUAustralian politician
• Daniel Deinb. 1956FRFrench politician
• Jeremy Deinb. 1960GBEnglish barrister
• Julius Deinb. 1994GBBritish former magician and illusionist
• Gavin DeinGBbusinessperson

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).

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Where does the name Dein come from?

your Recorded by A Frequency Dictionary of German.

What are other forms of the name Dein?

In the etymology graph, Thine is a form of the same name in other languages.

How do you pronounce Dein?

A machine transcription gives /daɪn/ (IPA) for English.

What does the name Dein mean?

In English, present participle of de

In which country does Dein have the most bearers?

In the United States, the national register counted about 260 people named Dein, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dein.

Where is Dein most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Dein is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 140 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.

How common is the name Dein?

In the United States, the national register counted 260 people named Dein in 2010, about 1 in 1.3 million residents.