Dina is from the Hebrew Dīnāh (דִּינָה — judged) — modern American spelling. A modern American baby name in the broader Japanese anime heritage aesthetic. Dina Fritz is a foundational character in Hajime Isayama's Attack on Titan (Shingeki no Kyojin) manga (2009-2021) and anime adaptation. The Attack on Titan manga has sold over 140 million copies worldwide. Foundational first wife of Grisha Yeager (Eren Yeager's father) and mother of Zeke Yeager (the Beast Titan and a major antagonist). A member of the iconic Eldian Royal Family (the Fritz bloodline) descended from Ymir Fritz. After Marleyan persecution, she was transformed into a Pure Titan and exiled to Paradis Island — becoming the foundational Smiling Titan who killed Carla Yeager (Eren's mother) in front of him during the Wall Maria breach (Year 845) — one of the foundational traumatic moments in modern shonen anime. Her arc became central to the foundational Attack on Titan mythology of Eldian-Marleyan conflict.
Featured throughout Japanese anime.
Dina does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.
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In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Dina reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.