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Dino

Boy · Italian

Dino

Say it: DEE-noh

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Meaning

A short form of names ending in -dino, such as Bernardino or Aldobrandino.

Certainscholars agree on this meaning.

Its wave through time

Fading since the 1960s

In the United States

0510152018801900192019401960198020002020Peak 1960per 100,000 babies of that sex
  • 8,995 babies given this name since 1912
  • At its height in 1960, about 1 in 5,500 boys
  • 48 babies in 2020

Through the ages

  1. The High and Late Middle Ages1100 to 1450
  2. The Modern Age1880 to today

Used by

Italian

Famous bearers

  • Dino Compagni, Florentine chronicler
  • Dino Buzzati, writer

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Where this comes from

  • Medieval and Renaissance Italian records, such as the Florentine tax survey of 1427
  • United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source

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Meanings and histories are drawn from the study of names and their languages, each with a confidence rating; popularity figures come from official birth records. Name histories are a living field: if you know of a correction, we would be glad to hear it.