Dinah

DYE-nah

Hebrew

"God will judge"

Dinah Origin and Meaning

The name Dinah is a girl's name of Hebrew origin meaning "God will judge".

As the song says, "Dinah, is there anyone finer?" Dinah is a charming, underused Old Testament name with a rich literary and musical resume.

In the Old Testament, Dinah was the beautiful daughter of Jacob and Leah. While some conflate the Biblical Dinah with the Biblical Adinah, they are in fact different figures in the Old Testament.

Dinah is the heroine of the best-selling Anita Diamant novel The Red Tent. In the George Eliot novel Adam Bede, Dinah Morris is a young preacher who marries the hero. And in the classic film The Philadelphia Story, Dinah is the heroine's sassy kid sister. Dinah also appears in Alice in Wonderland as the name of Alice’s kitten.

One important thing to note is that "Aunt Dinah" has been used as a racial stereotype, from the character of the cook in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin. The term has also appeared in several songs.

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

Dinah Rank in US Top 1000

# 910 in the US

Dinah Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

# 1044 on Nameberry

Dinah Popularity

• 1044 Nameberry 2024

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Famous People Named Dinah

• Dinah Biblical daughter of Jacob
• Dinah Washington (born Ruth Lee Jones) American singer
• Frances Rose "Dinah" Shore American singer
• Dinah Beth Manoff American actress
• Dinah Jane Milika Ilaisaane Hansen singer of American girl group Fifth Harmony
• Dinah Lee (born Diane Marie Jacobs) New Zealand pop singer
• Dinah Sheridan (born Dinah Nadyejda Ginsburg) English actress
• Dinah Pfizenmaier German tennis player
• Dinah Cancer stage name of vocalist Mary Ann Sims
• Dinah Barbara Christie Canadian actress
• Dinah Maria Craik English novelist
• Dinah Lenney American actress

Dinah in Pop Culture

• Dinah Alice's cat in Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland"
• Dinah Hunter character in the Demon Headmaster books and television series
• Dinah Mannering character in Enid Blyton's "The Island of Adventure"
• Dinah the family cook in The Bobbsey Twins series
• Dinah Drake and Dinah Laurel Lance aka Black Canary mother and daughter DC Comics characters
• Aunt Dinah cook in Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin"
• Dinah Lord character in movie "The Philadelphia Story"
• Dinah character in Laurence Sterne's "Tristram Shandy"
• Dinah de La Baudraye character in Balzac's "Comedie humaine"
• Mrs. Dinah Delacroix formerly Diana Piggott (Dicey), character in Elizabeth Bowen's "The Little Girls" (1964)
• Miss Dinah Perfect old lady given to table,rapping in Sheridan Le Fanu's "All in the Dark" (1866)
• Dinah Sachs main character in Susanna Kaysen's "Asa, As I Knew Him" (1987)
• Dinah character in anime "Sailor Moon"
• Dinah Marler character on American soap "Guiding Light"