Given name & surname
Din
“a great man”
Din is used as a given name and a surname. One African interpretation is “a great man.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One African interpretation is “a great man.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is African.
How it developed
In English usage, Din as a surname developed from ឌិន.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1972. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Din through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 84
- 84 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2003
- 10 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 9 in 2023. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 10 in 2003. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 545 as a first name in 2020; 1,927 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Din’s family of names
In English usage, Din as a surname developed from the Khmer form ឌិន. Din has a related form in Dyn. In Hebrew usage, Din is a Roman-alphabet rendering of דין.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Din
- Dean DavidIsraeli association football playerborn 1996
- Din Mohammad HanifAfghan politician, Minister of Economy of Afghanistanborn 1955
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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