Dinah

Locally spelled Diane in US United States, GB United Kingdom, CA Canada, Diana in NL Netherlands, GE Georgia, Dina in CZ Czechia and Dayana in EC Ecuador.

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.

• English:/ˈdaɪnə/●(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
• Swahili:/ɗinah/○(machine-generated) model-generated
• Portuguese:/dina/○(machine-generated) model-generated

Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.

Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.

Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Dinah, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.

• Jael
• Esther
• Hadassah
• Avital
• Adah

From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.

Dinah is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Portuguese given name4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Philippines, Mexico

  Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

  Also written Dįnah, Dináh

• a separate name2 spellings in the group

  Also written Dináh

59 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.

Dinah 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.

• Her story serves as a complex narrative regarding the vulnerability of the Israelite family in Canaan, the consequences of sexual violence, and the moral ambiguity of vigilante justice.

  as a name·Biblical Names Compiled Database

• 2 Biblical name (a feminine form derived from Hebrew din ‘judgement’}, borne by a daughter of Jacob. She was raped by Shechem but avenged by her brothers Simeon and Levi (Genesis 34). In modern times it is generally taken as a variant of the much more common Diana.

  as a name·A concise dictionary of first names

• In English, A daughter of Jacob and Leah. (biblical character)

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

• Judged or Vindicated

  as a name·Biblical Names Compiled Database

• In French, Biblical Hebrew name, from dîn/dinah ‘judgment’

  as a name·Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

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.

• Dinah Shoreb. 1916USAmerican singer and actress (1916-1994)
• Cleo Laineb. 1927GBnot in their usual nameEnglish jazz singer and actress (1927–2025)
• Dinah Janeb. 1997USAmerican singer (born 1997)

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).

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.

67 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 39 countries.

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

What does the name Dinah mean, and where does it come from?

A Hebrew name meaning 'judged' or 'vindicated'; historically less common than other matriarchal names due to the tragic biblical narrative associated with it. Recorded by Biblical Names Compiled Database.

What are other forms of the name Dinah?

In the etymology graph, Dina and Deina are forms of the same name in other languages.

How do you pronounce Dinah?

It depends on the language: in English /ˈdaɪnə/ (Wiktionary); in Swahili /ɗinah/; in Portuguese /dina/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.

Is Dinah a male or female name?

Dinah is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020), Brazil (IBGE), France (INSEE, 2024) and Netherlands (Meertens NVB), among others.

Which countries have the most people named Dinah?

In the United States, the national register counted about 423 thousand people named Diane, more than in any other country we hold. After it come United Kingdom, Canada, Czechia and Ecuador; the country table on this page ranks them.

Where is Dinah most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Dinah is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 66 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.

How common is the name Dinah?

In the Netherlands, the national register counted 261 people named Dinah, about 1 in 66 thousand residents.

How common is Dinah compared with other names?

In the United States, Dinah is the 30th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.