Meaning not yet researched.
Diana: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 1,277 in 2025. Its best rank was #42 in 1946.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #42 in 1946; #244 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Diana in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#244 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1946, at #42.
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Diana: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 1,277 girls in 2025. Peak: #42 in 1946 · most girls in one year: 9,433 (1957).
In 2025, 1,277 US girls were named Diana, making it the 244th most common girls’ name of the year, down 2 places from #242 in 2024. That is 24 fewer than the 1,301 girls named Diana in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #42, reached in 1946. The most girls given the name in a single year was 9,433, in 1957. For comparison, it was #296 in 2015 and #47 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Diana in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 10 babies with the name. In all, 369,771 US babies have been given the name, 99.6% of them girls and 0.3% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 80,403 babies named Diana.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 13,365 US girls were named Diana; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 1,608. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,259 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Diana ranked highest in California in 2025, at #143 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Diane (520,034 babies since 1880), Dianne (95,475 babies since 1880), Dianna (56,356 babies since 1880) and Deana (23,476 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Dyanna, Diona and Deona are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Di, Dicey and Didi.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Czech, Dutch, English, Galician, Italian, Polish and Romanian. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Dyanna (1,721), Diona (1,509), Deona (1,172), Dianah (449), Deeana (337), Deyana (314), Dyna (246), Dinna (170), Deyna (169), Diyana (139), Deina (101), Diannah (86), and more.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 12 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 212 | #143 | #162 |
| Virginia | 47 | #173 | #482 |
| South Carolina | 26 | #180 | #790 |
| Connecticut | 18 | #180 | #289 |
| Nevada | 14 | #183 | #170 |
| Delaware | 5 | #184 | #202 |
| Washington | 40 | #184 | #264 |
| Utah | 25 | #186 | #464 |
| Texas | 174 | #190 | #277 |
| North Carolina | 54 | #201 | #390 |
| North Dakota | 5 | #208 | — |
| Maryland | 24 | #215 | #362 |
| Kansas | 14 | #225 | #340 |
| Maine | 5 | #226 | — |
| Georgia | 44 | #239 | #468 |
| Florida | 79 | #241 | #288 |
| Oregon | 15 | #248 | #149 |
| Alabama | 19 | #250 | #723 |
| New York | 68 | #250 | #172 |
| Massachusetts | 23 | #251 | #402 |
| Ohio | 43 | #260 | #483 |
| Illinois | 39 | #269 | #226 |
| Kentucky | 16 | #277 | #764 |
| Minnesota | 19 | #290 | #795 |
| Louisiana | 15 | #305 | #394 |
| Pennsylvania | 35 | #313 | #608 |
| Idaho | 7 | #319 | #385 |
| Tennessee | 25 | #319 | #445 |
| New Jersey | 25 | #329 | #160 |
| Arizona | 21 | #333 | #332 |
| Oklahoma | 12 | #352 | #594 |
| Iowa | 9 | #360 | #542 |
| Arkansas | 8 | #391 | #605 |
| Michigan | 22 | #395 | #485 |
| Colorado | 15 | #397 | #370 |
| Indiana | 13 | #522 | #422 |
| Mississippi | 5 | #544 | #381 |
| Wisconsin | 7 | #647 | #454 |
| Missouri | 7 | #752 | #533 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,277 | #244 | — | — |
| 2024 | 1,301 | #242 | — | — |
| 2023 | 1,312 | #228 | — | — |
| 2022 | 1,316 | #229 | — | — |
| 2021 | 1,329 | #225 | — | — |
| 2020 | 1,236 | #245 | — | — |
| 2019 | 1,435 | #213 | — | — |
| 2018 | 1,608 | #185 | — | — |
| 2017 | 1,368 | #230 | — | — |
| 2016 | 1,183 | #269 | — | — |
| 2015 | 1,091 | #296 | — | — |
| 2014 | 1,092 | #298 | — | — |
| 2013 | 1,179 | #272 | — | — |
| 2012 | 1,288 | #252 | — | — |
| 2011 | 1,545 | #204 | — | — |
| 2010 | 1,622 | #190 | — | — |
| 2009 | 1,943 | #166 | — | — |
| 2008 | 2,444 | #138 | 9 | #8,476 |
| 2007 | 3,182 | #106 | 5 | #12,845 |
| 2006 | 2,841 | #120 | — | — |
| 2005 | 3,159 | #100 | 6 | #10,441 |
| 2004 | 3,554 | #90 | 13 | #5,898 |
| 2003 | 3,149 | #108 | 15 | #5,101 |
| 2002 | 2,907 | #117 | 11 | #6,191 |
| 2001 | 3,198 | #102 | — | — |
| 2000 | 3,167 | #106 | 9 | #6,980 |
| 1999 | 3,328 | #101 | 12 | #5,399 |
| 1998 | 3,853 | #83 | 9 | #6,457 |
| 1997 | 3,586 | #97 | 11 | #5,374 |
| 1996 | 2,951 | #107 | 6 | #8,219 |
| 1995 | 3,167 | #105 | 15 | #4,105 |
| 1994 | 3,369 | #98 | 38 | #2,133 |
| 1993 | 3,389 | #94 | 33 | #2,307 |
| 1992 | 3,251 | #101 | 27 | #2,616 |
| 1991 | 3,342 | #103 | 32 | #2,253 |
| 1990 | 3,548 | #98 | 29 | #2,386 |
| 1989 | 3,687 | #86 | 46 | #1,690 |
| 1988 | 3,489 | #85 | 28 | #2,209 |
| 1987 | 3,354 | #85 | 36 | #1,801 |
| 1986 | 3,669 | #75 | 33 | #1,847 |
| 1985 | 3,686 | #74 | 35 | #1,738 |
| 1984 | 3,965 | #72 | 42 | #1,489 |
| 1983 | 4,039 | #69 | 30 | #1,836 |
| 1982 | 4,430 | #63 | 33 | #1,741 |
| 1981 | 3,971 | #75 | 23 | #2,219 |
| 1980 | 2,614 | #118 | 15 | #2,995 |
| 1979 | 2,781 | #111 | 12 | #3,409 |
| 1978 | 2,885 | #102 | 19 | #2,397 |
| 1977 | 2,846 | #100 | 16 | #2,686 |
| 1976 | 2,760 | #101 | 14 | #2,859 |
| 1975 | 2,912 | #100 | 16 | #2,560 |
| 1974 | 3,513 | #87 | 20 | #2,146 |
| 1973 | 3,519 | #85 | 13 | #2,750 |
| 1972 | 3,548 | #83 | 14 | #2,567 |
| 1971 | 4,211 | #82 | 18 | #2,226 |
| 1970 | 4,373 | #89 | 16 | #2,320 |
| 1969 | 4,525 | #81 | 17 | #2,067 |
| 1968 | 4,995 | #71 | 18 | #1,910 |
| 1967 | 5,340 | #65 | 20 | #1,773 |
| 1966 | 5,504 | #64 | 10 | #2,671 |
| 1965 | 5,926 | #64 | 15 | #2,111 |
| 1964 | 7,070 | #63 | 17 | #1,992 |
| 1963 | 7,310 | #62 | 17 | #1,981 |
| 1962 | 7,842 | #57 | 30 | #1,432 |
| 1961 | 8,198 | #56 | 22 | #1,747 |
| 1960 | 8,327 | #53 | 18 | #1,925 |
| 1959 | 8,637 | #49 | 21 | #1,768 |
| 1958 | 9,169 | #45 | 16 | #2,045 |
| 1957 | 9,433 | #43 | 26 | #1,554 |
| 1956 | 7,851 | #56 | 9 | #2,839 |
| 1955 | 7,847 | #55 | 18 | #1,860 |
| 1954 | 7,624 | #57 | 12 | #2,344 |
| 1953 | 7,438 | #55 | 21 | #1,683 |
| 1952 | 7,392 | #51 | 18 | #1,817 |
| 1951 | 7,396 | #50 | 10 | #2,537 |
| 1950 | 7,447 | #47 | 18 | #1,758 |
| 1949 | 7,535 | #48 | 15 | #1,965 |
| 1948 | 7,706 | #48 | 25 | #1,468 |
| 1947 | 7,622 | #48 | 14 | #2,098 |
| 1946 | 7,544 | #42 | 18 | #1,710 |
| 1945 | 6,047 | #43 | 16 | #1,714 |
| 1944 | 4,311 | #60 | 9 | #2,505 |
| 1943 | 4,337 | #62 | 16 | #1,855 |
| 1942 | 3,857 | #68 | 14 | #1,973 |
| 1941 | 2,544 | #100 | 14 | #1,929 |
| 1940 | 2,195 | #117 | 14 | #1,919 |
| 1939 | 1,712 | #138 | 7 | #2,900 |
| 1938 | 1,466 | #151 | — | — |
| 1937 | 1,333 | #157 | — | — |
| 1936 | 834 | #202 | — | — |
| 1935 | 804 | #212 | 5 | #3,792 |
| 1934 | 860 | #205 | — | — |
| 1933 | 728 | #227 | — | — |
| 1932 | 661 | #236 | — | — |
| 1931 | 538 | #265 | — | — |
| 1930 | 564 | #263 | — | — |
| 1929 | 539 | #278 | — | — |
| 1928 | 407 | #330 | — | — |
| 1927 | 351 | #364 | — | — |
| 1926 | 320 | #381 | 5 | #4,366 |
| 1925 | 304 | #393 | — | — |
| 1924 | 277 | #418 | — | — |
| 1923 | 284 | #397 | — | — |
| 1922 | 267 | #403 | — | — |
| 1921 | 242 | #442 | — | — |
| 1920 | 232 | #443 | — | — |
| 1919 | 213 | #454 | — | — |
| 1918 | 209 | #462 | — | — |
| 1917 | 149 | #551 | — | — |
| 1916 | 159 | #519 | — | — |
| 1915 | 157 | #490 | — | — |
| 1914 | 152 | #444 | — | — |
| 1913 | 101 | #507 | — | — |
| 1912 | 86 | #521 | — | — |
| 1911 | 56 | #575 | — | — |
| 1910 | 55 | #553 | — | — |
| 1909 | 44 | #582 | — | — |
| 1908 | 55 | #489 | — | — |
| 1907 | 35 | #632 | — | — |
| 1906 | 38 | #570 | — | — |
| 1905 | 31 | #633 | — | — |
| 1904 | 36 | #560 | — | — |
| 1903 | 26 | #658 | — | — |
| 1902 | 36 | #538 | — | — |
| 1901 | 23 | #667 | — | — |
| 1900 | 29 | #660 | — | — |
| 1899 | 31 | #538 | — | — |
| 1898 | 27 | #623 | — | — |
| 1897 | 18 | #745 | — | — |
| 1896 | 30 | #557 | — | — |
| 1895 | 23 | #644 | — | — |
| 1894 | 23 | #610 | — | — |
| 1893 | 24 | #578 | — | — |
| 1892 | 20 | #646 | — | — |
| 1891 | 16 | #673 | — | — |
| 1890 | 13 | #764 | — | — |
| 1889 | 20 | #575 | — | — |
| 1888 | 6 | #1,172 | — | — |
| 1887 | 16 | #564 | — | — |
| 1886 | 13 | #642 | — | — |
| 1885 | 13 | #614 | — | — |
| 1884 | 15 | #546 | — | — |
| 1883 | 10 | #621 | — | — |
| 1882 | 8 | #692 | — | — |
| 1881 | 7 | #695 | — | — |
| 1880 | 10 | #555 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).