Dinora
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- dee-NOR-a
- US rank, 2025
- #11,928 for girls
Dinora is a girls' name. In 2025 it ranked 11,928th for girls in the US (7 babies).
What does Dinora mean?
Latin American name, perhaps from Meyerbeer's opera Dinorah
Dinorah is the heroine of Meyerbeer's 1859 opera Le pardon de Ploërmel, also known as Dinorah.
Is Dinora a girl's or a boy's name?
Dinora is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 7 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Dinora in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 11,928th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 7 about 1 in 230,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 7 girls in the US were named Dinora, making it the 11,928th most popular name for girls. Its busiest year was 1992, with 28 girls. It first appears in the records in 1955.
Half of all the girls named Dinora in the US since 1880 were born between 1980 and 2004, the years shaded on the chart below.
Dinora in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #11,928 |
| 2024 | 5 | #15,288 |
| 2023 | 11 | #8,984 |
| 2022 | 6 | #13,586 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,141 |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 8 | #11,350 |
| 2018 | 5 | #15,677 |
| 2017 | 10 | #9,939 |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,109 |
| 2015 | 12 | #8,926 |
| 2014 | 7 | #13,063 |
| 2013 | 5 | #16,542 |
| 2012 | 8 | #12,193 |
| 2011 | 6 | #14,816 |
| 2010 | 13 | #8,697 |
| 2009 | 6 | #15,236 |
| 2008 | 7 | #13,827 |
| 2007 | 8 | #12,671 |
| 2006 | 15 | #7,865 |
| 2005 | 27 | #4,824 |
| 2004 | 21 | #5,740 |
| 2003 | 10 | #9,666 |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,240 |
| 2001 | 22 | #5,169 |
| 2000 | 20 | #5,486 |
| 1999 | 16 | #6,185 |
| 1998 | 18 | #5,579 |
| 1997 | 26 | #4,122 |
| 1996 | 22 | #4,578 |
| 1995 | 24 | #4,212 |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,091 |
| 1993 | 23 | #4,387 |
| 1992 | 28 | #3,767 |
| 1991 | 25 | #4,053 |
| 1990 | 23 | #4,225 |
| 1989 | 15 | #5,539 |
| 1988 | 18 | #4,648 |
| 1987 | 17 | #4,656 |
| 1986 | 13 | #5,456 |
| 1985 | 12 | #5,676 |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,149 |
| 1983 | 10 | #6,210 |
| 1982 | 13 | #5,207 |
| 1981 | 11 | #5,884 |
| 1980 | 17 | #4,326 |
| 1979 | 9 | #6,694 |
| 1978 | 8 | #6,946 |
| 1977 | 21 | #3,485 |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,294 |
| 1975 | 9 | #5,982 |
| 1974 | 10 | #5,359 |
| 1973 | 10 | #5,189 |
| 1972 | 13 | #4,299 |
| 1971 | 20 | #3,266 |
| 1970 | 15 | #3,871 |
| 1969 | 7 | #5,972 |
| 1968 | 12 | #3,999 |
| 1967 | 13 | #3,655 |
| 1966 | 6 | #5,808 |
| 1965 | 6 | #5,816 |
| 1964 | 0 | – |
| 1963 | 5 | #6,591 |
| 1962 | 6 | #5,859 |
| 1961 | 8 | #4,881 |
| 1960 | 0 | – |
| 1959 | 0 | – |
| 1958 | 0 | – |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,085 |
| 1956 | 0 | – |
| 1955 | 7 | #4,739 |
Names like Dinora
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Brianna, Kiara, Briana, Mckenna, Cassidy, Fiona, Daniela, Kiana, Kianna, Brenna, Sierra, Tiana
Names related to Dinora
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Dinora: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/dinora, updated 20 October 2026.