# Dine (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/dine/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 857 |
| US rank (2010) | 27,974 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 360,263 people |
| Change since 2000 | +7.3% (799 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

* As a Dutch surname, shortened from Van Dine (see Vanduyne). * As an English surname, from digne, from Old French digne (“proud, dignified”), from Latin dignus. * As a French surname, shortened from Claudine.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Dine in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 91% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 2.7% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.6% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 1.2% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 1.1% |
| Two or more races | 1.2% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Dine in the United States and the Ottoman Empire.

## People named Dine

- Jim Dine, American painter, sculptor, and printmaker (born 1935)
- Spiro Dine, Albanian writer

## Similar surnames

Dion, Dionne, Dane, Diana, Din, Done, Dain, Dinh, Diem, Dimeo, Dunn, Dean.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.