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Re: origin of name
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Someone here has already looked into Dinja - you might find this page interesting:
http://www.behindthename.com/bb/fact/3933907
Interestingly, according to this, Dinja de Wolff was born in Rotterdam:
http://wiki.theaterencyclopedie.nl/wiki/Dinja_de_Wolff - so perhaps the official namelist was drawn up after 1907?
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... and the official namelist must be altered later on, because today there are 174 Dinjas in the Netherlands, see http://www.meertens.knaw.nl/nvb/naam/is/dinja .I think that Dinja is related to Dina.
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