Dino is a boy's name of Arabic origin meaning “little sword.” In 2024 it was given to 48 boys in the United States.
Dino at a glance
Gender
Boy name
Origin
Muslim & Arabic
Meaning
“little sword”
Pronunciation
/ˈdiːnəʊ/
About the name Dino
Dino belongs to the Muslim & Arabic tradition. Its meaning — “little sword” — is the sense carried by its Arabic roots, and it is the meaning we verified against published sources for this page.
In the United States, Dino first appears in Social Security records in 1912. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #404 in 1960, and in 2024 48 babies received the name — 9,173 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.
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