Diallo
Diallo was given to 10 boys in 2025, #7,800 among boys’ names; 811 Americans have been recorded with it since 1971 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Diallo by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Diallo?
#7,800 among boys’ names, 2025
Diallo rose from #8,948 in 2015 to #7,800 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 4.2 to 5.9 per million.
81 babies in 1972, the peak
Diallo peaked in 1972, when 81 babies were given it (76 boys, #917 among boys’ names). The 10 births of 2025 are 12% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #7,800 | 5.9 |
| 2024 | 12 | #6,929 | 7.0 |
| 2023 | 8 | #9,128 | 4.7 |
| 2022 | 6 | #11,214 | 3.4 |
| 2021 | 8 | #9,027 | 4.6 |
| 2019 | 10 | #7,773 | 5.6 |
| 2018 | 7 | #9,932 | 3.9 |
| 2016 | 9 | #8,309 | 4.7 |
| 2015 | 8 | #8,948 | 4.2 |
| 2014 | 7 | #9,901 | 3.6 |
Every recorded year (45)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 6 | #11,084 | 3.2 |
| 2012 | 5 | #12,740 | 2.6 |
| 2011 | 14 | #6,022 | 7.4 |
| 2010 | 10 | #7,727 | 5.2 |
| 2009 | 9 | #8,466 | 4.5 |
| 2008 | 6 | #11,422 | 2.9 |
| 2007 | 19 | #4,856 | 9.2 |
| 2006 | 18 | #4,910 | 8.8 |
| 2005 | 18 | #4,680 | 9.0 |
| 2004 | 23 | #3,895 | 11.6 |
| 2003 | 18 | #4,470 | 9.1 |
| 2002 | 28 | #3,202 | 14.4 |
| 2001 | 30 | #3,002 | 15.4 |
| 2000 | 24 | #3,442 | 12.2 |
| 1999 | 26 | #3,124 | 13.5 |
| 1998 | 28 | #2,873 | 14.6 |
| 1997 | 13 | #4,726 | 6.9 |
| 1996 | 26 | #2,851 | 13.7 |
| 1995 | 16 | #3,904 | 8.4 |
| 1994 | 21 | #3,246 | 10.9 |
| 1993 | 13 | #4,510 | 6.6 |
| 1992 | 14 | #4,159 | 7.0 |
| 1991 | 9 | #5,624 | 4.5 |
| 1990 | 5 | #8,459 | 2.4 |
| 1989 | 6 | #7,213 | 3.0 |
| 1980 | 6 | #5,705 | 3.4 |
| 1979 | 11 | #3,632 | 6.4 |
| 1978 | 8 | #4,254 | 4.9 |
| 1977 | 18 | #2,482 | 11.0 |
| 1976 | 27 | #1,840 | 17.2 |
| 1975 | 33 | #1,564 | 21.1 |
| 1974 | 35 | #1,479 | 22.3 |
| 1973 | 48 | #1,189 | 30.8 |
| 1972 | 76 | #917 | 46.9 |
| 1971 | 54 | #1,115 | 30.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Diallo a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Diallo has been given almost only to boys: 5 girls in 45 years of records.
Girls and boys named Diallo: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Diallo, and how old are they?
An estimated 767 Americans named Diallo and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 30 years old and half are between 22 and 52. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 687 people named Diallo (18 women and girls, 669 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 736 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Diallo
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Diallo and names like it
- Compare Diallo and DamondBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sDiallo peaked in 1972.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Diallo since 1910.
- The top names of 1972The year the most babies were named Diallo.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Diallo alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with DMost given first.