Dina
A Hebrew name meaning "judged" or "vindicated". Fewer than 1,400 women in Poland carry it and almost no one gives it to newborns now, so meeting a Dina stays a rarity.
Dina Pronunciation
Dina is pronounced DEE-nah (/ˈdina/).
What Dina means
Where Dina comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Dina comes from Hebrew, from the root din, which means to judge. The short meaning carried by the name is "judged," and in a warmer reading "vindicated," the sense of someone whose case has been decided in her favor. The oldest bearer on record is Dinah, daughter of Jacob and Leah in the Book of Genesis, whose single chapter of story sent the name into centuries of reading.
The literal sense sits near a courtroom. To be Dina is to be someone the record has weighed and found in the right. Over time that legal edge softened, and the vindication came forward while the tribunal faded, until judgment read more like rescue.
In a Polish class register, Dina is short, four letters, easy to call across a room. It keeps its shape here without a diminutive or a variant to blur it.
The name stays what it was. Hebrew in origin, "judged" in meaning, and in its kinder gloss, sprawiedliwie oceniona.
When Dina celebrates name day
Dina appears 1 time in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 20 June.
Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.
How many people are named Dina
1 in 16431 women in Poland is named Dina. 1,377 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #832 among female names.
Dina's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Where Dina is most popular
Dina is most popular in Masovian, 510% above the national average (2 girls born 2019–2025).
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Dina as a middle name
Dina is a first name for 1,377 women in Poland and a middle name for another 90, a 94/6 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 705th, between Devi (90) and Dorothea (90).
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