Dinah

As the song says, "Dinah, is there anyone finer?" Dinah is a charming, underused Old Testament name, long shunned for its old slave-name stereotype--Dinah was the family cook in Uncle Tom's Cabin, but has a rich literary and musical resume and would make a vivid, southern-accented name for a contemporary girl.

In the Old Testament, Dinah was the beautiful daughter of Jacob and Leah: she was the heroine of the best-selling novel The Red Tent. In the George Eliot novel Adam Bede, Dinah is a lovely young preacher who marries the hero, And in the classic film The Philadelphia Story, Dinah is the heroine's sassy kid sister .

The name Dinah was adopted by two great singers: Dinah Washington (born Ruth) and Dinah Shore (born Frances).