Meaning not yet researched.
Diego: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 2,351 in 2025. Its best rank was #56 in 2006.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #56 in 2006; #158 in 2025. About 99.7% of babies named Diego in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#158 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2006, at #56.
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Diego: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 2,351 boys in 2025. Peak: #56 in 2006 · most boys in one year: 8,403 (2006).
In 2025, 2,351 US boys were named Diego, making it the 158th most common boys’ name of the year, down 13 places from #145 in 2024. That is 160 fewer than the 2,511 boys named Diego in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #56, reached in 2006. That year also had the most boys given the name: 8,403. For comparison, it was #125 in 2015 and #1,297 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Diego in 118 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1887 with 5 babies. In all, 126,405 US babies have been given the name, 0.2% of them girls and 99.8% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 56,156 babies named Diego.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 28,591 US boys were named Diego; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 3,201. In 2025 that was about 1 in 727 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Diego ranked highest in New Mexico in 2025, at #35 for boys there. It was in the top 100 in 4 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include James (5,274,520 babies since 1880), Jacob (990,532 babies since 1880), Jim (153,938 babies since 1880) and Santiago (103,965 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Deigo, Deago and Dyego are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Deigo (226), Deago (92), Dyego (6).
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.
No nicknames listed for Diego in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 11 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Mexico | 36 | #35 | #51 |
| California | 499 | #74 | #51 |
| Arizona | 100 | #76 | #75 |
| Texas | 476 | #83 | #59 |
| Florida | 186 | #115 | #120 |
| Illinois | 88 | #132 | #104 |
| Nevada | 23 | #135 | #84 |
| Oregon | 30 | #136 | #131 |
| Maryland | 43 | #136 | #115 |
| Colorado | 52 | #136 | #133 |
| Virginia | 56 | #159 | #144 |
| Nebraska | 16 | #176 | #250 |
| District of Columbia | 5 | #176 | #78 |
| New Jersey | 57 | #178 | #164 |
| Kansas | 22 | #179 | #178 |
| Washington | 48 | #183 | #163 |
| Georgia | 66 | #187 | #183 |
| Massachusetts | 31 | #203 | #208 |
| Delaware | 5 | #218 | #182 |
| Louisiana | 23 | #223 | #221 |
| Tennessee | 40 | #224 | #295 |
| North Carolina | 56 | #225 | #217 |
| Utah | 22 | #235 | #203 |
| Indiana | 35 | #237 | #348 |
| Connecticut | 13 | #254 | #265 |
| Wisconsin | 23 | #257 | #293 |
| New York | 67 | #277 | #205 |
| South Carolina | 19 | #292 | #283 |
| Minnesota | 21 | #295 | #511 |
| Oklahoma | 16 | #296 | #225 |
| Ohio | 38 | #312 | #416 |
| Alabama | 17 | #320 | #268 |
| Idaho | 7 | #343 | #117 |
| Pennsylvania | 32 | #346 | #369 |
| Iowa | 10 | #353 | #209 |
| Kentucky | 14 | #359 | #308 |
| Michigan | 21 | #411 | #356 |
| Mississippi | 7 | #432 | #386 |
| Arkansas | 7 | #454 | #218 |
| Missouri | 8 | #667 | #498 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #15,525 | 2,351 | #158 |
| 2024 | — | — | 2,511 | #145 |
| 2023 | 6 | #13,889 | 2,747 | #135 |
| 2022 | — | — | 2,970 | #124 |
| 2021 | — | — | 2,925 | #126 |
| 2020 | — | — | 2,910 | #126 |
| 2019 | 5 | #16,177 | 2,990 | #129 |
| 2018 | 6 | #14,272 | 2,884 | #135 |
| 2017 | 7 | #13,082 | 3,102 | #129 |
| 2016 | 7 | #13,289 | 3,201 | #130 |
| 2015 | 9 | #11,147 | 3,237 | #125 |
| 2014 | 5 | #17,255 | 3,171 | #129 |
| 2013 | — | — | 2,921 | #130 |
| 2012 | — | — | 3,337 | #110 |
| 2011 | 7 | #13,744 | 3,824 | #99 |
| 2010 | — | — | 4,719 | #86 |
| 2009 | 8 | #12,756 | 5,414 | #76 |
| 2008 | 7 | #14,249 | 6,572 | #69 |
| 2007 | 20 | #6,631 | 8,216 | #58 |
| 2006 | 20 | #6,430 | 8,403 | #56 |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,346 | 6,942 | #62 |
| 2004 | 19 | #6,301 | 5,876 | #73 |
| 2003 | 13 | #8,126 | 5,121 | #83 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,417 | 3,979 | #98 |
| 2001 | 10 | #9,577 | 2,833 | #139 |
| 2000 | — | — | 2,685 | #147 |
| 1999 | 9 | #9,712 | 2,416 | #149 |
| 1998 | 5 | #14,802 | 1,807 | #187 |
| 1997 | — | — | 1,785 | #186 |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,266 | 1,380 | #218 |
| 1995 | 7 | #10,828 | 1,298 | #228 |
| 1994 | 9 | #9,030 | 1,260 | #237 |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,232 | 914 | #299 |
| 1992 | 6 | #12,188 | 890 | #301 |
| 1991 | 5 | #13,753 | 879 | #295 |
| 1990 | 6 | #11,797 | 830 | #307 |
| 1989 | — | — | 759 | #316 |
| 1988 | 5 | #12,322 | 596 | #348 |
| 1987 | 5 | #11,799 | 525 | #368 |
| 1986 | — | — | 421 | #417 |
| 1985 | — | — | 343 | #467 |
| 1984 | — | — | 317 | #473 |
| 1983 | — | — | 275 | #509 |
| 1982 | — | — | 262 | #527 |
| 1981 | — | — | 211 | #587 |
| 1980 | — | — | 193 | #629 |
| 1979 | — | — | 144 | #722 |
| 1978 | — | — | 136 | #721 |
| 1977 | — | — | 152 | #687 |
| 1976 | — | — | 119 | #760 |
| 1975 | — | — | 145 | #685 |
| 1974 | — | — | 133 | #712 |
| 1973 | — | — | 108 | #768 |
| 1972 | — | — | 103 | #790 |
| 1971 | — | — | 101 | #799 |
| 1970 | — | — | 103 | #802 |
| 1969 | — | — | 82 | #848 |
| 1968 | — | — | 57 | #975 |
| 1967 | — | — | 67 | #877 |
| 1966 | — | — | 79 | #823 |
| 1965 | — | — | 67 | #902 |
| 1964 | — | — | 65 | #948 |
| 1963 | — | — | 59 | #990 |
| 1962 | — | — | 54 | #1,038 |
| 1961 | — | — | 58 | #1,029 |
| 1960 | — | — | 45 | #1,168 |
| 1959 | — | — | 52 | #1,072 |
| 1958 | — | — | 62 | #964 |
| 1957 | — | — | 42 | #1,203 |
| 1956 | — | — | 27 | #1,514 |
| 1955 | — | — | 33 | #1,318 |
| 1954 | — | — | 33 | #1,318 |
| 1953 | — | — | 30 | #1,384 |
| 1952 | — | — | 19 | #1,762 |
| 1951 | — | — | 21 | #1,654 |
| 1950 | — | — | 31 | #1,297 |
| 1949 | — | — | 31 | #1,305 |
| 1948 | — | — | 20 | #1,668 |
| 1947 | — | — | 29 | #1,372 |
| 1946 | — | — | 19 | #1,654 |
| 1945 | — | — | 15 | #1,800 |
| 1944 | — | — | 22 | #1,449 |
| 1943 | — | — | 22 | #1,499 |
| 1942 | — | — | 29 | #1,300 |
| 1941 | — | — | 23 | #1,423 |
| 1940 | — | — | 14 | #1,920 |
| 1939 | — | — | 14 | #1,898 |
| 1938 | — | — | 20 | #1,533 |
| 1937 | — | — | 19 | #1,592 |
| 1936 | — | — | 16 | #1,744 |
| 1935 | — | — | 24 | #1,397 |
| 1934 | — | — | 20 | #1,570 |
| 1933 | — | — | 24 | #1,370 |
| 1932 | — | — | 19 | #1,664 |
| 1931 | — | — | 17 | #1,786 |
| 1930 | — | — | 15 | #1,991 |
| 1929 | — | — | 27 | #1,391 |
| 1928 | — | — | 21 | #1,659 |
| 1927 | — | — | 20 | #1,756 |
| 1926 | — | — | 25 | #1,482 |
| 1925 | — | — | 14 | #2,219 |
| 1924 | — | — | 29 | #1,388 |
| 1923 | — | — | 17 | #1,963 |
| 1922 | — | — | 13 | #2,373 |
| 1921 | — | — | 17 | #1,999 |
| 1920 | — | — | 14 | #2,248 |
| 1919 | — | — | 20 | #1,710 |
| 1918 | — | — | 13 | #2,288 |
| 1917 | — | — | 9 | #2,785 |
| 1916 | — | — | 18 | #1,716 |
| 1915 | — | — | 10 | #2,490 |
| 1914 | — | — | 9 | #2,317 |
| 1913 | — | — | 9 | #1,981 |
| 1912 | — | — | 9 | #1,777 |
| 1911 | — | — | 7 | #1,421 |
| 1910 | — | — | 8 | #1,229 |
| 1903 | — | — | 5 | #1,166 |
| 1887 | — | — | 5 | #965 |
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).