Given name & surname
Dinh
“one who is peaceful; calm”
Dinh is used as a given name and a surname. One Vietnamese interpretation is “one who is peaceful; calm.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Vietnamese interpretation is “one who is peaceful; calm.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Vietnamese.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1982. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Dinh through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 65
- 65 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1982
- 6 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 6 in 2014. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 3,101 as a first name in 2020; 20,854 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.
Dinh’s family of names
In English usage, Dinh as a surname shares an earlier linguistic root with Teng. In French usage, Dinh as a surname was borrowed from the Vietnamese form Đinh.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
Similar names
If you love Dinh, these share its style, era, origin or sound, from outside its own family.
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>99% boys
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“a righteous man”
>99% boys
Duc
“one who has upstanding morals”
>99% boys
Dat
“one who is accomplished”
>99% boys
Duong
Duong is a surname from Vietnamese, ultimately from Khmer. It is used in English, French, and Czech.
>99% boys
Thinh
“a prosperous man”
>99% boys
Danh
Danh is a surname.
>99% boys
Dang
“one who is praiseworthy”
98% boys · 2% girls