Given name & surname

Dines

Dines is a surname. It is used in English and Danish.

Meaning & origin

How it developed

In Danish usage, Dines developed from Dionysius.

Dines’s family of names

In Danish usage, Dines developed from the Latin form Dionysius. In Greek usage, Dines as a surname is a transliteration of Δίνες.

Walk Dines’s family in the name graph

DinesΔίνεςDinnesDionysiusTiinasi

Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.

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Around the world

Dines has relatives in 3 languages.

Greenlandic

3 related names in 3 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.

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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 2

Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

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