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Dinah vs Dinorah

American parents have registered 10,509 Dinahs since 1880, against 569 Dinorahs. Dinah is still ahead, with 34 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Dinah against Dinorah, 1880 to 2025 0 100 200 300 400 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Dinah Dinorah

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Dinah has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1993, when Dinah had 45 and Dinorah had 19.

Side by side

  Dinah Dinorah
Total US births 10,509569
Most in one year 34625
Babies in 2025 34under 5
Estimated living today 8,000540
Median age today 6242
Peak year 19551968
Best rank 488th girls2,482nd girls
Rank in 2025 4,172ndunranked
First recorded 18801958
Girls / boys 10,509 / 0569 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Dinahs alive today are over 62; half the Dinorahs are over 42. That is 20 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Dinah and Dinorah.