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Usage
Danish
Norwegian
Swedish
Finnish
Faroese
Greenlandic
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Origin and Meaning
1) Short form of names ending with -dina, -dine, -drina, -drine (see also -dina) [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]
2a) Hebrew דִּינָה (dina) = 'judge, judging one' [1] [2] [8]
2b) Hebrew דִּינָה (dina) = 'judged' [3] [4] [6]
2c) Hebrew דִּינָה (dina) = 'law suit, judgment' [3] [5] [6] [10] [9]
2d) Hebrew דִּינָה (dina) = 'judgment, justice' [7]
Related Names
See also Daina, Dineke, Dinna, Tîna
For male forms see Dinus
Male
Dinuson
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Female
Dinudóttir
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Combinations
For combinations see DINA (name element)
Grammar
- Danish |
Nominative: |
Dina
|
Genitive: |
Dinas
|
- Faroese |
Nominative: |
Dina
|
Accusative: |
Dinu
|
Dative: |
Dinu
|
Genitive: |
Dinu
|
- Finnish |
Nominative: |
Dina
|
Genitive: |
Dinan
|
Partitive: |
Dinaa
|
- Norwegian |
Nominative: |
Dina
|
Genitive: |
Dinas
|
- Swedish |
Nominative: |
Dina
|
Genitive: |
Dinas
|
Name Day
Norway
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30 December
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Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Bible
Trivia
- Sweden: In January 1973, 280 people were named Dina (percentage of first or only given name: 77 %) [12]
- Main character in the book Dinas bok (Dina's book) by Herbjørg Wassmo (1989)
Statistics
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Country | Commonness
| Total | Female ♀ | Male ♂ |
|
| as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& |
---|
Sweden[14] |
|
1216 |
1506 |
1213 |
1503 |
3 |
3 |
Denmark[15] |
|
1699 |
n.a. |
1699 |
n.a. |
0 |
n.a. |
Finland[16] |
|
n.a. |
489 |
n.a. |
489 |
0 |
0 |
Greenland[17] |
|
69 |
259 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Iceland[18] |
|
4 |
6 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Norway[19] |
|
2324 |
n.a. |
2324 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
#: count of main first name only |
&: count of both main and additional first names |
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country. |
Recent Statistics Trend
Sources: [14][15][19][16]
Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend
Swedish Regional Distribution
Regional distribution of Dina (f) in Sweden in the year 1880.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Rosa und Volker Kohlheim: Duden Lexikon der Vornamen (1998)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Friedrich Wilhelm Weitershaus: Das große Vornamenlexikon (1998)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
- ↑ Málráðið: Góðkend fólkanøvn,
http://www.malrad.fo/ (Name List by Faroese Language Board)
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ 19.0 19.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no