Dinnie — boys' name
27 babies named Dinnie in U.S. Social Security records since 1945, with the highest year being 1948. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
41% of everyone ever named Dinnie was born in this single decade.
6 babies were named Dinnie in 1948 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Dinnie
The Social Security Administration has registered 27 babies named Dinnie between 1945 and 1960, spanning 16 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Dinnie currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 1960. The name reached its historical peak in 1948, when 6 babies received it in a single year. Dinnie is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 5 additional births since 1962.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Dinnie performed strongest in the 1940s, accumulating 11 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Dinnie shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.
No etymological entry is currently available for Dinnie in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 27 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Dinnie at a glance
Last recorded 1960Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Dinnie popularity over time — boys
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1960–1945
- Peak year (1948)
- 6
- Annual births at peak — across 16 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 1960.
27 total births across 16 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1948 with 6 births in a single year.
Dinnie popularity over time — girls
5 total births recorded since 1962 (Dinnie as girls' name)
Unisex use remains the minority pattern
The girls' variant of Dinnie accounts for 16% of total recorded use across both genders.
Dinnie by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1940s
- 11 births that decade — 41% of Dinnie's all-time total
Dinnie decade highlights
- Peak decade 11 births
- Runner-up 11 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1940s was Dinnie's strongest decade
11 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 41% of all-time use.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1945–1960 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.