Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Dinorah is a variant of Dinah. An origin associated with Dinah is Hebrew.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1958. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin. Dinorah is a variant of Dinah. The history of Dinah gives this family its wider story. Dinah appears in biblical tradition, giving it a longstanding religious and cultural context.
Combines direct and name-family evidence
Dinorah through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 569
- 0 boys · 569 girls
- Most popular year
- 1968
- 25 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 girls is 5 in 2022. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 25 in 1968. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 2,240 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Dinorah’s family of names
Dinorah has a related form in Dinah. In English usage, Dinorah has a conventional equivalent in the Russian form Динора.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
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 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Dinorah
- Dinorah VarsiUruguayan pianist1939–2013
- Dinorah FigueraVenezuelan politicianborn 1961
- Dinorah BolandiCosta Rican artist1923–2004
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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