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Meaning of the nameDinara

Dinara is a feminine name of uncertain meaning, which Behind the Name records in Kazakh, Tatar, Kyrgyz and Uzbek.

IBGE's 2022 Census recorded 1,391 people named Dinara, the 6,604th most common name in Brazil. Their median age is 37, and the largest group was born in the 1980s. Proportionally, it is most common in Rio Grande do Sul.

Meaning

The meaning of Dinara is not known for certain. The sources consulted give no settled meaning for it, so we give none; below are the origin of the spelling and the official figures.

People (2022)
1,391
Rank in Brazil
#6,604
Median age
37 years
2010 Census
1,483
people

Dinara in the 2022 Census

People with the first name Dinara, by the decade they were born. In the chart, 70 = the 1970s and 20+ = 2020 to 2022. The largest group was born in the 1980s (351 people).

1,387 women 0 men

Source: IBGE, 2022 Demographic Census, Nomes no Brasil. The census counts the first name of people alive in 2022; small counts are not published, and the first group covers everyone born before 1940. How to read these data.

Where the name Dinara is most common

States with the highest share of people named Dinara in the population, in the 2022 Census.

  1. Rio Grande do Sul 0.005%
  2. Santa Catarina 0.002%
All states
StatePeople% of population
Rio Grande do Sul5450.005%
Santa Catarina1690.002%
Rio Grande do Norte660.002%
São Paulo650.000%
Bahia480.000%
Paraná480.000%
Ceará470.001%
Pernambuco460.001%
Amazonas420.001%
Minas Gerais410.000%
Goiás340.001%
Rio de Janeiro320.000%
Pará320.000%
Paraíba310.001%
Mato Grosso240.001%
Maranhão230.000%
Piauí220.001%

States with fewer than 15 people with the name are not shown: IBGE does not publish those counts.

About the name Dinara

Behind the Name treats the meaning of Dinara as uncertain: it may come from the Arabic dīnār, a coin that goes back to the Latin denarius, or, alternatively, from dīn, 'religion'. It records the name as feminine in the four languages mentioned. Wiktionary gives Dinara, in English, as the name of a mountain range in the Dinaric Alps, on the border between Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia. In the 2022 Census, IBGE recorded 1,391 people named Dinara, with a median age of 37. It is almost always a female name, and most of these people were born in the 1980s and 1990s. Proportionally, it is most common in Rio Grande do Sul.

Sources

  1. Behind the Name: Dinara · behindthename.com · origin
  2. Wiktionary: Dinara · en.wiktionary.org · origin

Questions about the name Dinara

What does the name Dinara mean?

The meaning of Dinara is not known for certain: the sources consulted give no settled meaning for it. So we give none; the page shows the origin of the spelling and the official figures.

How many people are named Dinara in Brazil?

IBGE's 2022 Census recorded 1,391 people with the first name Dinara, which ranks it number 6,604 among the country's names. The largest group was born in the 1980s.

Is Dinara a boy's or a girl's name?

Dinara is a female name: in the 2022 Census, 1,387 women and 0 men had this name (IBGE does not publish very small counts).

In which Brazilian state is Dinara most common?

Proportionally, in Rio Grande do Sul: 0.005% of the state's population is named Dinara (545 people), according to the 2022 Census.

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