Dinorah — girls' name

What the Data Says About Dinorah

The Social Security Administration has registered 569 babies named Dinorah between 1958 and 2022, spanning 65 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Dinorah currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2022. The name reached its historical peak in 1968, when 25 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Dinorah performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 122 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Dinorah shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 66 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and California. In total, SSA state-level files list Dinorah in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Dinorah 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 569 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.