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Dinero vs Dino

American parents have registered 9,219 Dinos since 1880, against 547 Dineros. Dino is still ahead, with 45 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Dinero Dino

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

Of the 114 years in which either name was published, Dino for 110 years and Dinero for 4 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Dinero Dino
Total US births 5479,219
Most in one year 73386
Babies in 2025 4045
Estimated living today 5407,100
Median age today 555
Peak year 20221960
Best rank 2,060th boys404th boys
Rank in 2025 3,036th2,798th
First recorded 19851912
Girls / boys 0 / 5470 / 9,219

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 Dinos alive today are over 55; half the Dineros are over 5. That is 50 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.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Dinero Dino
England and Wales 7204

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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