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    The surname Dinh

    A Vietnamese surname, carried by 17,081 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex D500

    Dinh: #2,119 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#10,001Dubon Dinh #2,119, 17,081 people Dinh: #2,119 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Dinh #2,119, 17,081 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Dinh is more common than 98.7% of them.

    Origin

    Vietnamese origin

    Borrowed from Vietnamese Đinh. Doublet of Teng.

    One of 31 Vietnamese surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 17,081 people named Dinh in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 18,075 Americans. That is up 44% since 2000, when the Census counted 11,836.

    #2,119
    rank among US surnames
    17,081
    people in 2010
    5.8
    per 100,000 Americans
    +44.3%
    change since 2000 (was #2,792)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #2,110Greco17,15018,003
    #2,111Zimmer17,14618,007
    #2,112Moseley17,13018,024
    #2,113Quigley17,12118,033
    #2,114Atwood17,11218,043
    #2,115Brunson17,09918,056
    #2,116Coon17,09718,058

    Who is named Dinh

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    97% of people named Dinh identified as Asian and Pacific Islander, 1.3% as two or more races and 1.3% as white (not Hispanic).

    • Asian and Pacific Islander 97%
    • Two or more races 1.3%
    • White (not Hispanic) 1.3%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 0.7%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among Asian and Pacific Islander Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like Dinh

    Dinh has the Soundex code D500, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code D500.

    Other Vietnamese surnames

    All 31 Vietnamese surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Dinh come from?
    Borrowed from Vietnamese Đinh. Doublet of Teng.
    How common is the surname Dinh?
    17,081 people in the United States had the surname Dinh in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 18,075 Americans. It ranked 2,119th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Dinh?
    In the 2010 Census, 97% of people named Dinh identified as Asian and Pacific Islander, and 1.3% as two or more races.
    Is the surname Dinh getting more or less common?
    More common. 11,836 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 17,081 in 2010, up 44%.