Dinges
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: third-person singular simple present indicative of dinge (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
Dinges is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 2,084 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010. Dinges is also written Дингес in Cyrillic.
- USUnited States1 in 160K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 1.4M
- NLNetherlands1 in 1.7M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Dinges itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 87 (measured from records)
- 1 in 160K (inferred from the name graph)
2,084 people, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Dinges in other scripts: Cyrillic
(measured from records)Locally spelled Дингес in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)third-person singular simple present indicative of dinge
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
How Dinges is read
(measured from records)Dinges is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English76%
third-person singular simple present indicative of dinge
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- German14%
genitive singular of Ding
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Patronymische Schreibungsvariante; zeigt n/ng-Variation. 4 Typen/925 Belege.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
Varianz n/ng in Patronymen und proklitischen Präpositionen; n~ng-Wechsel.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
from Dionysius.
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where the surname Dinges is found
(measured from records)Dinges counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 2,084 | 1 in 160K | 2.1K | Dinges | 5 |
| RU Russia | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 455K | — | Дингес | 87 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | ≈76 est. | ≈1 in 271K | — | Дингес | 25 |
| AR Argentina | 23 | 1 in 2M | 23 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | 10 | 1 in 1.7M | 10 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 6 | 1 in 1.4M | 6 | — | — |
2,084 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Dinges is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Dutch, thingamajig, whatchamacallit
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Erich Dingesb. 1911DEHolocaust perpetrator
- John Dingesb. 1941USChilean-American journalist
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)14 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Dinges mean, and where does it come from?
- third-person singular simple present indicative of dinge Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Dinges?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.1 thousand people named Dinges, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dinges. After it come Russia, Kazakhstan, Argentina and Netherlands; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Dinges most common?
- Dinges is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 160 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Dinges?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,084 people named Dinges in 2010, about 1 in 160 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Dinges?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/dingesThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Dinges” — ranked 14356th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2010). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.