Dineen
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Dineen is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States. Recorded meaning: from Irish Gaelic Ó Duinnín, descendant of Duinnín, from donn ‘brown, dark’.
- GBUnited Kingdom
- AUAustralia
- USUnited States
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from Irish Gaelic Ó Duinnín, descendant of Duinnín, from donn ‘brown, dark’.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)
Dineen is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
cendant of Duinnin’, a byname from a dim. of donn brown, dark (see Dunn). Dinneen. Dinan, O’Dunneen, O’Dunnion). Vars.: Dunnion; Dunning,
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
cendant of Duinnin’, a byname from a dim. of dorm brown, dark (see Dunn). Vars.: Dinneen, Dinan, Dunnion; Dunning, Denning; O’Dunneen, O’Dunnion).
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
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)
- Bill Dineenb. 1932CACanadian ice hockey player (1932–2016)
- Patricia Dineenb. 1935USfigure skater
- Barry Dineenb. 1936NZNew Zealand cricketer and businessman
- Robert Dineenb. 1937USfigure skater
- Patrick Dineenb. 1938IEIrish cricketer
- Gary Dineenb. 1943CAice hockey player
- Sean Dineenb. 1944IEIrish mathematician
- Molly Dineenb. 1959CAAward winning documentary maker
- Gord Dineenb. 1962CACanadian ice hockey coach
- Kevin Dineenb. 1963CACanadian ice hockey player and coach
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 16 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3.1K | #10,434 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.9K | #10,251 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.8K | #10,915 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 13 | #50,901 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 11 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 11 | #125,715 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 9 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 9 | #141,535 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 9 | #126,713 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 2 | #71,085 |
| GB United Kingdom | A Dictionary of Surnames (Hanks & Hodges, 1988) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Dineen mean, and where does it come from?
- from Irish Gaelic Ó Duinnín, descendant of Duinnín, from donn ‘brown, dark’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Dineen have the most bearers?
- Dineen is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/dineenThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
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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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Dineen”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.