Dino
#2,798 for boys in 2025, 45 births
- Peak · boys
- 1960 · 386 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 9,219since 1912
Dino over time
Rank among boys' names. Dino has never cracked the top 400 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,798 | 45 |
| 2024 | #2,715 | 48 |
| 2023 | #2,660 | 49 |
| 2022 | #3,617 | 31 |
| 2021 | #2,819 | 44 |
| 2020 | #2,586 | 49 |
| 2019 | #3,716 | 29 |
| 2018 | #2,893 | 41 |
| 2017 | #2,891 | 41 |
| 2016 | #3,111 | 37 |
| 2015 | #2,766 | 43 |
| 2014 | #2,985 | 38 |
| 2013 | #2,998 | 37 |
| 2012 | #3,002 | 38 |
| 2011 | #2,748 | 43 |
| 2010 | #2,632 | 46 |
| 2009 | #2,451 | 52 |
| 2008 | #2,265 | 58 |
| 2007 | #2,213 | 60 |
| 2006 | #2,398 | 51 |
| 2005 | #1,889 | 67 |
| 2004 | #2,024 | 59 |
| 2003 | #1,717 | 71 |
| 2002 | #2,019 | 54 |
| 2001 | #1,743 | 65 |
| 2000 | #1,699 | 67 |
| 1999 | #1,858 | 53 |
| 1998 | #1,833 | 54 |
| 1997 | #1,730 | 56 |
| 1996 | #1,599 | 61 |
| 1995 | #1,549 | 61 |
| 1994 | #1,608 | 57 |
| 1993 | #1,444 | 65 |
| 1992 | #1,371 | 68 |
| 1991 | #1,482 | 59 |
| 1990 | #1,318 | 71 |
| 1989 | #1,476 | 56 |
| 1988 | #1,154 | 76 |
| 1987 | #1,316 | 56 |
| 1986 | #1,188 | 64 |
| 1985 | #1,133 | 67 |
| 1984 | #1,110 | 66 |
| 1983 | #979 | 81 |
| 1982 | #1,039 | 76 |
| 1981 | #995 | 83 |
| 1980 | #1,042 | 75 |
| 1979 | #937 | 88 |
| 1978 | #1,011 | 73 |
| 1977 | #899 | 89 |
| 1976 | #875 | 91 |
| 1975 | #841 | 97 |
| 1974 | #718 | 130 |
| 1973 | #740 | 117 |
| 1972 | #610 | 167 |
| 1971 | #552 | 213 |
| 1970 | #525 | 237 |
| 1969 | #519 | 226 |
| 1968 | #468 | 264 |
| 1967 | #448 | 284 |
| 1966 | #468 | 266 |
| 1965 | #521 | 216 |
| 1964 | #544 | 210 |
| 1963 | #494 | 262 |
| 1962 | #455 | 308 |
| 1961 | #410 | 372 |
| 1960 | #404 | 386 |
| 1959 | #406 | 382 |
| 1958 | #439 | 317 |
| 1957 | #513 | 225 |
| 1956 | #543 | 193 |
| 1955 | #792 | 85 |
| 1954 | #762 | 87 |
| 1953 | #1,058 | 47 |
| 1952 | #1,166 | 40 |
| 1951 | #1,195 | 37 |
| 1950 | #1,364 | 28 |
| 1949 | #1,409 | 27 |
| 1948 | #1,559 | 22 |
| 1947 | #1,336 | 30 |
| 1946 | #1,382 | 26 |
| 1945 | #1,633 | 17 |
| 1944 | #1,400 | 23 |
| 1943 | #1,986 | 14 |
| 1942 | #1,537 | 21 |
| 1941 | #1,759 | 16 |
| 1940 | #1,680 | 17 |
| 1939 | #1,795 | 15 |
| 1938 | #1,337 | 25 |
| 1937 | #1,212 | 30 |
| 1936 | #949 | 42 |
| 1935 | #1,247 | 29 |
| 1934 | #970 | 43 |
| 1933 | #926 | 46 |
| 1932 | #664 | 85 |
| 1931 | #717 | 72 |
| 1930 | #944 | 51 |
| 1929 | #1,078 | 41 |
| 1928 | #1,272 | 32 |
| 1927 | #1,748 | 20 |
| 1926 | #1,192 | 36 |
| 1925 | #1,225 | 34 |
| 1924 | #1,133 | 40 |
| 1923 | #1,275 | 32 |
| 1922 | #1,259 | 33 |
| 1921 | #1,390 | 29 |
| 1920 | #1,543 | 24 |
| 1919 | #1,624 | 21 |
| 1918 | #1,827 | 18 |
| 1917 | #1,479 | 23 |
| 1916 | #1,374 | 25 |
| 1915 | #1,600 | 19 |
| 1914 | #1,388 | 19 |
| 1913 | #1,803 | 10 |
| 1912 | #2,045 | 7 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Dino! It came in at #2,045, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1912–1913, when fewer than 11 boys a year got the name.
Where Dino is popular in 1968
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Rhode Island#126 · 1 in 1,185
- Connecticut#267 · 1 in 3,741
- Michigan#279 · 1 in 3,313
- Massachusetts#300 · 1 in 6,513
- California#326 · 1 in 2,934
Best ever in a state: #101 in Rhode Island, 1931.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rhode Island | #126 | 6 | 1 in 1,185 |
| Connecticut | #267 | 6 | 1 in 3,741 |
| Michigan | #279 | 23 | 1 in 3,313 |
| Massachusetts | #300 | 7 | 1 in 6,513 |
| California | #326 | 57 | 1 in 2,934 |
| Arizona | #335 | 6 | 1 in 2,411 |
| Ohio | #338 | 19 | 1 in 4,752 |
| Pennsylvania | #345 | 15 | 1 in 6,040 |
| New Jersey | #378 | 9 | 1 in 5,849 |
| Illinois | #392 | 19 | 1 in 4,804 |
| New York | #405 | 26 | 1 in 5,683 |
| Florida | #422 | 10 | 1 in 4,746 |
| Texas | #645 | 11 | 1 in 9,306 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Dino
- 83 spots since 2024 (#2,715 → #2,798)
- 212 spots since 2020 (#2,586 → #2,798)
- 32 spots since 2015 (#2,766 → #2,798)
- Biggest jump: 298 spots in 1936 (#1,247 → #949)
- Biggest drop: 277 spots in 1935 (#970 → #1,247)
- Debuted 1912
- Peaked 1960 at #404 (386 births)
- Births halved by 1972, 12 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 33 yrs · run 1954–1977
- Highest: 1 in 5,524 boys born in 1960 were named Dino (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 37,957 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 30.3% of all boys named Dino (2,794) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 142 | #1,374 (1916) | #1,643 |
| 1920s | 321 | #1,078 (1929) | #1,312 |
| 1930s | 438 | #664 (1932) | #1,076 |
| 1940s | 213 | #1,336 (1947) | #1,568 |
| 1950s | 1,441 | #406 (1959) | #824 |
| 1960s | 2,794 | #404 (1960) | #473 |
| 1970s | 1,302 | #525 (1970) | #771 |
| 1980s | 700 | #979 (1983) | #1,143 |
| 1990s | 605 | #1,318 (1990) | #1,579 |
| 2000s | 604 | #1,699 (2000) | #2,042 |
| 2010s | 393 | #2,632 (2010) | #2,974 |
| 2020s | 266 | #2,586 (2020) | #2,866 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Dino in 1968
Top boys' names in 1968
More about 1968
boys
1,737,974 boys got a published name in 1968; 1 in 6,583 of them was named Dino, which outranked 90.1% of the 4,746 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 28.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.