In 2025, 23 US girls were named Dyani, making it the 5,451st most common girls’ name of the year, down 520 places from #4,931 in 2024. That is 4 fewer than the 27 girls named Dyani in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,220, reached in 2001. That year also had the most girls given the name: 73. For comparison, it was #5,168 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Dyani in 50 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1974 with 10 babies. In all, 1,337 US babies have been given the name, 99% of them girls and 1.5% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 498 babies named Dyani.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 262 US girls were named Dyani; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 33. In 2025 that was about 1 in 69,881 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Dyan (1,928 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Diania, Diani and Deyani are summarised on this page.
Meaning
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Lakota. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.