Dina

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Female Female Name

Usage

Denmark Danish
Sweden Swedish
Norway Norwegian
Faroe Islands Faroese

Origin and Meaning

1) Short form of names ending in -dina, -dine [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]

2a) Hebrew דִּינָה (dina) = 'judge, judging one' [1] [2]

2b) Hebrew דִּינָה (dina) = 'judged' [3] [4] [6]

2c) Hebrew דִּינָה (dina) = 'law suit, judgment' [3] [5] [6]

2d) Hebrew דִּינָה (dina) = 'judgment, justice' [7]

Related Names

     
Diinná Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Sami
Dina Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Danish Faroese Norwegian Swedish
Dinah Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Danish Norwegian Swedish
Dine Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Danish Norwegian Swedish
Dineke Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Danish
Dinna Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Danish Faroese Swedish
Dinne Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Danish
Dinnie Frequency of occurance as female name todayFrequency of occurance as male name today Danish

Combinations

For combinations see DINA (name element)

Name Day

Norway Norway

30 December

Grammar

Faroe Islands - Faroese
Nominative: Dina
Accusative: Dinu
Dative: Dinu
Genitive: Dinu

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1671 [7]

Bible

In the Old Testament, Dina is the daughter of Jakob and Lea

Statistics

Name count per country
CountryCommonnessFemale ♀ Male ♂
Statimg f legend.pngStatimg m legend.pngas main name#also aux. name&as main name#also aux. name&
Denmark Denmark[8] Statimg f4.pngStatimg m0.png 1525 n.a. 0 n.a
Norway Norway[9] Statimg f4.pngStatimg m0.png 1132 1928 0 0
Sweden Sweden[10] Statimg f4.pngStatimg m1.png 817 1037 3 4
Finland Finland[11] Statimg f3.pngStatimg m1.png n.a. 306 n.a 1
  #: count of main first name only
  &: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

Recent statistics trend[10][8][9][11]:Name statistics for Dina(f)


Norwegian historic statistics trend[9]:

Norwegian historic statistics for Dina(f)


Sources: [10] [8] [9] [11]

References

  1. Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
  2. Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  3. Rosa und Volker Kohlheim: Duden Lexikon der Vornamen (1998)
  4. Friedrich Wilhelm Weitershaus: Das große Vornamenlexikon (1998)
  5. Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
  6. Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
  7. Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  8. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  9. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  10. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  11. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi