Diamond
Diamond is given to both girls and boys: 94 girls and 37 boys were given it in 2025 (#2,024 among girls’ names and #3,199 among boys’, #2,949 among all names counting both); 36,297 Americans have been recorded with it since 1897 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 35,300 Americans named Diamond and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 27 years old and half are between 22 and 32.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Diamond by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Diamond mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Diamond is “a female given name from English of modern usage, from the name of the gem.”
As a female given name, from diamond (gemstone).
As a German surname, Anglicized form of Diamant.
As a Irish surname, Anglicized form of Irish Ó Diamáin.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Diamond?
#2,024 among girls’ names, 2025
Diamond fell from #1,014 in 2015 to #2,024 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.15 to 0.06 per 1,000.
2,210 babies in 1999, the peak
Diamond peaked in 1999, when 2,210 babies were given it (2,160 girls, #150 among girls’ names). The 131 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 6% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 94 | #2,024 | 0.06 |
| 2024 | 129 | #1,614 | 0.08 |
| 2023 | 130 | #1,606 | 0.08 |
| 2022 | 133 | #1,593 | 0.08 |
| 2021 | 154 | #1,412 | 0.09 |
| 2020 | 165 | #1,335 | 0.10 |
| 2019 | 192 | #1,220 | 0.11 |
| 2018 | 218 | #1,124 | 0.13 |
| 2017 | 227 | #1,109 | 0.13 |
| 2016 | 228 | #1,115 | 0.13 |
Every recorded year (85)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 264 | #1,014 | 0.15 |
| 2014 | 308 | #884 | 0.17 |
| 2013 | 395 | #707 | 0.23 |
| 2012 | 347 | #787 | 0.20 |
| 2011 | 363 | #759 | 0.21 |
| 2010 | 463 | #633 | 0.26 |
| 2009 | 618 | #495 | 0.34 |
| 2008 | 706 | #446 | 0.37 |
| 2007 | 912 | #356 | 0.47 |
| 2006 | 1,053 | #315 | 0.55 |
| 2005 | 1,057 | #301 | 0.57 |
| 2004 | 1,223 | #263 | 0.67 |
| 2003 | 1,400 | #235 | 0.77 |
| 2002 | 1,579 | #207 | 0.88 |
| 2001 | 1,945 | #167 | 1.1 |
| 2000 | 2,081 | #162 | 1.1 |
| 1999 | 2,160 | #150 | 1.2 |
| 1998 | 1,919 | #164 | 1.1 |
| 1997 | 1,676 | #181 | 1.0 |
| 1996 | 1,697 | #179 | 1.0 |
| 1995 | 1,682 | #179 | 1.0 |
| 1994 | 1,786 | #170 | 1.0 |
| 1993 | 1,522 | #192 | 0.84 |
| 1992 | 1,301 | #219 | 0.71 |
| 1991 | 826 | #324 | 0.44 |
| 1990 | 591 | #429 | 0.31 |
| 1989 | 455 | #516 | 0.25 |
| 1988 | 336 | #596 | 0.19 |
| 1987 | 260 | #702 | 0.15 |
| 1986 | 164 | #959 | 0.10 |
| 1985 | 139 | #1,061 | 0.08 |
| 1984 | 99 | #1,273 | 0.06 |
| 1983 | 86 | #1,381 | 0.05 |
| 1982 | 90 | #1,364 | 0.05 |
| 1981 | 56 | #1,920 | 0.03 |
| 1980 | 59 | #1,846 | 0.04 |
| 1979 | 47 | #2,120 | 0.03 |
| 1978 | 55 | #1,832 | 0.04 |
| 1977 | 36 | #2,434 | 0.02 |
| 1976 | 20 | #3,432 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 18 | #3,665 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 19 | #3,460 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 8 | #6,223 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 7 | #6,732 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,148 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 9 | #5,145 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 9 | #4,864 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,403 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 5 | #6,842 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 5 | #6,802 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 7 | #5,162 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 7 | #4,956 | under 0.01 |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,428 | under 0.01 |
| 1945 | 5 | #4,707 | under 0.01 |
| 1932 | 9 | #3,099 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 5 | #4,738 | under 0.01 |
| 1928 | 5 | #4,883 | under 0.01 |
| 1927 | 7 | #3,951 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 8 | #3,644 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 9 | #3,437 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 11 | #3,015 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 10 | #3,180 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 5 | #5,196 | under 0.01 |
| 1921 | 11 | #2,982 | 0.01 |
| 1920 | 11 | #2,957 | 0.01 |
| 1919 | 6 | #4,386 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 12 | #2,710 | 0.01 |
| 1917 | 8 | #3,423 | 0.01 |
| 1916 | 10 | #2,876 | 0.01 |
| 1915 | 7 | #3,511 | 0.01 |
| 1913 | 9 | #2,196 | 0.01 |
| 1912 | 6 | #2,712 | 0.01 |
| 1910 | 7 | #1,986 | 0.02 |
| 1909 | 6 | #2,019 | 0.02 |
| 1908 | 6 | #1,913 | 0.02 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Diamond a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 36,297 Americans recorded as Diamond, 93% are girls and 7% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Diamond: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Diamond, and how old are they?
35,300 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 36,297 Americans ever recorded as Diamond. The median Diamond alive today is 27 years old; half are between 22 and 32.
The 2020 Census counted 27,534 people named Diamond (25,949 women and girls, 1,585 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 34,499 born in the U.S. The Census count is 20% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 14 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 75 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 478 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 11,800 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 19,900 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,090 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Diamond born?
The states with the most babies named Diamond are New York, Texas and Tennessee, with 61% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Tennessee is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 14 | #1,562 | 1.1× |
| Texas | 7 | #2,704 | 0.9× |
| Tennessee | 7 | #915 | 0.9× |
| Michigan | 6 | #1,102 | 1.6× |
| Florida | 6 | #1,957 | 1.0× |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,316 | 1.3× |
Where Diamond is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Diamond is most over-represented in District of Columbia: since 1910 it was given 4.2 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Diamond with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 39,756 babies since 1880, Diamond is the most given (91% of them). In 2025 it was given to 131 of their 141 babies (93%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Diamond
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 Diamond and names like it
- Compare Diamond and DymondBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sDiamond peaked in 1999.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Diamond since 1910.
- English namesWiktionary’s origin for Diamond: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1999The year the most babies were named Diamond.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Diamond alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.