Girl

Dyani

Meaning not yet researched.

2025 rank
#5,451
23 girls
2015
#5,168
rank
1950
—
not ranked

Dyani: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 23 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,220 in 2001.

US births per year · SSA card applications

Peaked at #2,220 in 2001; #5,451 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Dyani in 2025 was a girl.

Baby name · US data 1880–2025

#5,451 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2001, at #2,220.

Babies in 2025
23
Since 1880
1,337
Years on record
50

Babies named Dyani, every year since 1880

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Girls

Dyani: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 23 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,220 in 2001 · most girls in one year: 73 (2001).

About the name Dyani

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

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.

Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Lakota. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.

Related spellings

Rare spellings summarised here: Diania (624), Diani (185), Deyani (126), Dioni (61), Dyanni (40), Dianni (22), Dini (22), Dyoni (7), Deyanni (5).

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.

Nicknames

No nicknames listed for Dyani in the open dataset we use.

Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).

Rank by year

Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.

CSV
YearGirlsGirls rankBoysBoys rank
202523#5,451——
202427#4,9315#12,829
202330#4,5915#12,735
202230#4,616——
202119#6,243——
202025#5,053——
201916#7,123——
201827#4,918——
201733#4,318——
201632#4,451——
201526#5,168——
201425#5,353——
201335#4,180——
201238#4,005——
201134#4,276——
201039#3,905——
200930#4,842——
200842#3,795——
200731#4,720——
200652#3,191——
200536#3,972——
200452#3,011——
200366#2,470——
200259#2,6115#11,169
200173#2,220——
200047#2,9915#10,867
199950#2,752——
199834#3,511——
199744#2,784——
199630#3,655——
199514#6,357——
199416#5,796——
199313#6,742——
199210#8,255——
199113#6,708——
19906#11,819——
19896#11,236——
19885#12,353——
19876#10,211——
19865#11,446——
198318#4,159——
198211#6,042——
198111#5,989——
198013#5,315——
197914#4,902——
197816#4,316——
19777#7,757——
197610#5,701——
19758#6,670——
197410#5,455——

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).