Diania
Diania was last recorded in 1984, when 5 babies were given it; 624 Americans have been recorded with it between 1941 and 1984 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Diania by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Diania?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #10,836, in 1984; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
34 babies in 1957, the peak
Diania peaked in 1957, when 34 girls were given it, #1,876 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1984 | 5 | #10,836 | 3.0 |
| 1983 | 5 | #10,703 | 3.0 |
| 1980 | 5 | #10,805 | 3.0 |
| 1978 | 9 | #6,528 | 5.9 |
| 1975 | 8 | #6,658 | 5.5 |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,389 | 5.5 |
| 1973 | 7 | #6,844 | 4.8 |
| 1972 | 8 | #6,087 | 5.3 |
| 1971 | 6 | #7,625 | 3.6 |
| 1970 | 10 | #5,143 | 5.7 |
Every recorded year (39)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1969 | 8 | #5,572 | 4.7 |
| 1968 | 15 | #3,488 | 9.1 |
| 1967 | 11 | #4,105 | 6.7 |
| 1966 | 12 | #3,788 | 7.1 |
| 1965 | 8 | #4,942 | 4.5 |
| 1964 | 22 | #2,694 | 11.6 |
| 1963 | 15 | #3,371 | 7.8 |
| 1962 | 19 | #2,839 | 9.7 |
| 1961 | 21 | #2,692 | 10.4 |
| 1960 | 25 | #2,386 | 12.4 |
| 1959 | 25 | #2,300 | 12.4 |
| 1958 | 28 | #2,126 | 13.9 |
| 1957 | 34 | #1,876 | 16.6 |
| 1956 | 18 | #2,744 | 9.0 |
| 1955 | 21 | #2,421 | 10.7 |
| 1954 | 27 | #2,036 | 13.9 |
| 1953 | 25 | #2,085 | 13.3 |
| 1952 | 21 | #2,281 | 11.3 |
| 1951 | 26 | #1,930 | 14.4 |
| 1950 | 26 | #1,874 | 15.2 |
| 1949 | 17 | #2,433 | 9.9 |
| 1948 | 23 | #2,021 | 13.5 |
| 1947 | 30 | #1,765 | 16.9 |
| 1946 | 20 | #2,104 | 12.7 |
| 1945 | 17 | #2,083 | 13.0 |
| 1944 | 11 | #2,808 | 8.3 |
| 1943 | 13 | #2,585 | 9.3 |
| 1942 | 10 | #3,037 | 7.4 |
| 1941 | 5 | #4,564 | 4.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Diania a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Diania has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 39 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Diania: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Diania, and how old are they?
An estimated 487 Americans named Diania and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (78% of everyone recorded); the median is 68 years old and half are between 62 and 75. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 522 people named Diania (522 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 530 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% 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 spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 1,080,044 babies since 1880, Diania is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 1,608 babies recorded by SSA was a Diania (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Diania
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 Diania and names like it
- Compare Diania and DianeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sDiania peaked in 1957.
- West Virginia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Diania since 1910.
- The top names of 1957The year the most babies were named Diania.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Diania alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with DMost given first.