Dino
Dino was given to 45 boys in 2025, #2,807 among boys’ names; 9,219 Americans have been recorded with it since 1912 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 7,040 Americans named Dino and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (76% of everyone recorded); the median is 56 years old and half are between 35 and 64.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dino by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Dino mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Dino is “a male given name from Italian, feminine equivalent Dina.”
Borrowed from Italian Dino.
/ˈdinoʊ/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Dino?
#2,807 among boys’ names, 2025
Dino fell from #2,776 in 2015 to #2,807 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 22.4 to 26.3 per million.
386 babies in 1960, the peak
Dino peaked in 1960, when 386 boys were given it, #404 among boys’ names. The 45 births of 2025 are 12% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 45 | #2,807 | 0.03 |
| 2024 | 48 | #2,723 | 0.03 |
| 2023 | 49 | #2,666 | 0.03 |
| 2022 | 31 | #3,635 | 0.02 |
| 2021 | 44 | #2,829 | 0.03 |
| 2020 | 49 | #2,593 | 0.03 |
| 2019 | 29 | #3,738 | 0.02 |
| 2018 | 41 | #2,907 | 0.02 |
| 2017 | 41 | #2,906 | 0.02 |
| 2016 | 37 | #3,122 | 0.02 |
Every recorded year (114)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 43 | #2,776 | 0.02 |
| 2014 | 38 | #2,998 | 0.02 |
| 2013 | 37 | #3,011 | 0.02 |
| 2012 | 38 | #3,013 | 0.02 |
| 2011 | 43 | #2,764 | 0.02 |
| 2010 | 46 | #2,648 | 0.02 |
| 2009 | 52 | #2,462 | 0.03 |
| 2008 | 58 | #2,274 | 0.03 |
| 2007 | 60 | #2,219 | 0.03 |
| 2006 | 51 | #2,414 | 0.02 |
| 2005 | 67 | #1,891 | 0.03 |
| 2004 | 59 | #2,025 | 0.03 |
| 2003 | 71 | #1,719 | 0.04 |
| 2002 | 54 | #2,023 | 0.03 |
| 2001 | 65 | #1,746 | 0.03 |
| 2000 | 67 | #1,700 | 0.03 |
| 1999 | 53 | #1,861 | 0.03 |
| 1998 | 54 | #1,834 | 0.03 |
| 1997 | 56 | #1,732 | 0.03 |
| 1996 | 61 | #1,600 | 0.03 |
| 1995 | 61 | #1,547 | 0.03 |
| 1994 | 57 | #1,609 | 0.03 |
| 1993 | 65 | #1,442 | 0.03 |
| 1992 | 68 | #1,370 | 0.03 |
| 1991 | 59 | #1,478 | 0.03 |
| 1990 | 71 | #1,314 | 0.03 |
| 1989 | 56 | #1,477 | 0.03 |
| 1988 | 76 | #1,155 | 0.04 |
| 1987 | 56 | #1,318 | 0.03 |
| 1986 | 64 | #1,191 | 0.03 |
| 1985 | 67 | #1,138 | 0.04 |
| 1984 | 66 | #1,115 | 0.04 |
| 1983 | 81 | #979 | 0.05 |
| 1982 | 76 | #1,042 | 0.04 |
| 1981 | 83 | #995 | 0.05 |
| 1980 | 75 | #1,042 | 0.04 |
| 1979 | 88 | #938 | 0.05 |
| 1978 | 73 | #1,019 | 0.04 |
| 1977 | 89 | #902 | 0.05 |
| 1976 | 91 | #875 | 0.06 |
| 1975 | 97 | #843 | 0.06 |
| 1974 | 130 | #719 | 0.08 |
| 1973 | 117 | #742 | 0.08 |
| 1972 | 167 | #611 | 0.10 |
| 1971 | 213 | #552 | 0.12 |
| 1970 | 237 | #525 | 0.13 |
| 1969 | 226 | #519 | 0.13 |
| 1968 | 264 | #468 | 0.15 |
| 1967 | 284 | #448 | 0.16 |
| 1966 | 266 | #468 | 0.15 |
| 1965 | 216 | #521 | 0.12 |
| 1964 | 210 | #544 | 0.11 |
| 1963 | 262 | #496 | 0.13 |
| 1962 | 308 | #455 | 0.15 |
| 1961 | 372 | #410 | 0.18 |
| 1960 | 386 | #404 | 0.18 |
| 1959 | 382 | #406 | 0.18 |
| 1958 | 317 | #439 | 0.15 |
| 1957 | 225 | #512 | 0.10 |
| 1956 | 193 | #542 | 0.09 |
| 1955 | 85 | #792 | 0.04 |
| 1954 | 87 | #764 | 0.04 |
| 1953 | 47 | #1,063 | 0.02 |
| 1952 | 40 | #1,171 | 0.02 |
| 1951 | 37 | #1,200 | 0.02 |
| 1950 | 28 | #1,372 | 0.02 |
| 1949 | 27 | #1,412 | 0.02 |
| 1948 | 22 | #1,572 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 30 | #1,339 | 0.02 |
| 1946 | 26 | #1,388 | 0.02 |
| 1945 | 17 | #1,641 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 23 | #1,408 | 0.02 |
| 1943 | 14 | #2,001 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 21 | #1,549 | 0.02 |
| 1941 | 16 | #1,779 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 17 | #1,696 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 15 | #1,816 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 25 | #1,346 | 0.02 |
| 1937 | 30 | #1,214 | 0.03 |
| 1936 | 42 | #954 | 0.04 |
| 1935 | 29 | #1,254 | 0.03 |
| 1934 | 43 | #976 | 0.04 |
| 1933 | 46 | #929 | 0.05 |
| 1932 | 85 | #664 | 0.08 |
| 1931 | 72 | #722 | 0.07 |
| 1930 | 51 | #948 | 0.05 |
| 1929 | 41 | #1,079 | 0.04 |
| 1928 | 32 | #1,275 | 0.03 |
| 1927 | 20 | #1,757 | 0.02 |
| 1926 | 36 | #1,198 | 0.03 |
| 1925 | 34 | #1,233 | 0.03 |
| 1924 | 40 | #1,139 | 0.04 |
| 1923 | 32 | #1,283 | 0.03 |
| 1922 | 33 | #1,265 | 0.03 |
| 1921 | 29 | #1,396 | 0.03 |
| 1920 | 24 | #1,554 | 0.02 |
| 1919 | 21 | #1,641 | 0.02 |
| 1918 | 18 | #1,843 | 0.02 |
| 1917 | 23 | #1,491 | 0.02 |
| 1916 | 25 | #1,386 | 0.03 |
| 1915 | 19 | #1,617 | 0.02 |
| 1914 | 19 | #1,402 | 0.03 |
| 1913 | 10 | #1,836 | 0.02 |
| 1912 | 7 | #2,089 | 0.02 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Dino a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Dino has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 114 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Dino: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dino, and how old are they?
7,040 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 76% of the 9,219 Americans ever recorded as Dino. The median Dino alive today is 56 years old; half are between 35 and 64.
The 2020 Census counted 8,358 people named Dino (47 women and girls, 8,311 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 7,231 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 85 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 2,250 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 2,290 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,010 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 879 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 528 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Dino born?
The states with the most babies named Dino are California, New York and Illinois, with 56% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 1,707 | #1,866 | 1.9× |
| New York | 1,041 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Illinois | 572 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 547 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Ohio | 354 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Michigan | 321 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| New Jersey | 298 | #1,068 | 1.1× |
| Massachusetts | 201 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Texas | 180 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Connecticut | 107 | not ranked | 0.9× |
Where Dino is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Dino is most over-represented in California: since 1912 it was given 1.9 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Dino with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Dino
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Dino and names like it
- Compare Dino and DerwinBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sDino peaked in 1960.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dino since 1910.
- Italian namesWiktionary’s origin for Dino: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1960The year the most babies were named Dino.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Dino alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with DMost given first.