Diann
Diann was last recorded in 2014, when 5 babies were given it; 12,252 Americans have been recorded with it between 1924 and 2014 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 9,000 Americans named Diann and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (73% of everyone recorded); the median is 71 years old and half are between 63 and 77.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Diann by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Diann mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Diann is “a female given name from Latin, variant of Diane.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Diann?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,248, in 2014; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
557 babies in 1947, the peak
Diann peaked in 1947, when 557 girls were given it, #338 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 5 | #17,248 | under 0.01 |
| 2011 | 6 | #15,351 | under 0.01 |
| 2008 | 7 | #14,243 | under 0.01 |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,135 | under 0.01 |
| 2004 | 6 | #14,647 | under 0.01 |
| 2000 | 8 | #11,009 | under 0.01 |
| 1999 | 9 | #9,704 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 7 | #11,462 | under 0.01 |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,164 | under 0.01 |
| 1996 | 9 | #9,001 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (79)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 7 | #10,822 | under 0.01 |
| 1994 | 13 | #6,775 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,188 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,241 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 12 | #7,074 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 14 | #6,214 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 19 | #4,712 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 15 | #5,395 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 18 | #4,511 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,265 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 16 | #4,683 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 20 | #3,897 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 21 | #3,714 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 26 | #3,276 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 24 | #3,458 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 14 | #5,046 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 24 | #3,365 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 24 | #3,217 | 0.02 |
| 1977 | 29 | #2,791 | 0.02 |
| 1976 | 31 | #2,559 | 0.02 |
| 1975 | 31 | #2,526 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 44 | #1,939 | 0.03 |
| 1973 | 52 | #1,718 | 0.04 |
| 1972 | 65 | #1,475 | 0.04 |
| 1971 | 101 | #1,150 | 0.06 |
| 1970 | 135 | #943 | 0.08 |
| 1969 | 127 | #944 | 0.08 |
| 1968 | 152 | #825 | 0.09 |
| 1967 | 156 | #800 | 0.09 |
| 1966 | 270 | #573 | 0.16 |
| 1965 | 397 | #475 | 0.22 |
| 1964 | 299 | #568 | 0.16 |
| 1963 | 276 | #599 | 0.14 |
| 1962 | 263 | #619 | 0.13 |
| 1961 | 306 | #574 | 0.15 |
| 1960 | 357 | #510 | 0.18 |
| 1959 | 376 | #503 | 0.19 |
| 1958 | 387 | #484 | 0.19 |
| 1957 | 456 | #440 | 0.22 |
| 1956 | 446 | #433 | 0.22 |
| 1955 | 461 | #409 | 0.24 |
| 1954 | 491 | #388 | 0.25 |
| 1953 | 510 | #378 | 0.27 |
| 1952 | 507 | #365 | 0.27 |
| 1951 | 515 | #350 | 0.29 |
| 1950 | 478 | #362 | 0.28 |
| 1949 | 496 | #352 | 0.29 |
| 1948 | 470 | #361 | 0.28 |
| 1947 | 557 | #338 | 0.31 |
| 1946 | 480 | #340 | 0.31 |
| 1945 | 396 | #344 | 0.30 |
| 1944 | 330 | #388 | 0.25 |
| 1943 | 333 | #401 | 0.24 |
| 1942 | 285 | #427 | 0.21 |
| 1941 | 208 | #485 | 0.17 |
| 1940 | 134 | #603 | 0.12 |
| 1939 | 121 | #614 | 0.11 |
| 1938 | 89 | #726 | 0.08 |
| 1937 | 68 | #837 | 0.06 |
| 1936 | 41 | #1,100 | 0.04 |
| 1935 | 42 | #1,075 | 0.04 |
| 1934 | 41 | #1,103 | 0.04 |
| 1933 | 20 | #1,734 | 0.02 |
| 1932 | 22 | #1,639 | 0.02 |
| 1931 | 10 | #2,818 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 10 | #2,896 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 6 | #4,186 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 6 | #4,436 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 5 | #5,260 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Diann a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Diann has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 79 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Diann: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Diann, and how old are they?
9,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 73% of the 12,252 Americans ever recorded as Diann. The median Diann alive today is 71 years old; half are between 63 and 77.
The 2020 Census counted 9,672 people named Diann (9,663 women and girls, 9 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 9,991 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 1,010 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 6,190 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,500 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 232 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 57 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 5 |
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 Diann born?
The states with the most babies named Diann are Texas, Ohio and Michigan, with 21% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 775 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Ohio | 654 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Michigan | 647 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 647 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| California | 645 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 580 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| New York | 516 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Indiana | 386 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Mississippi | 373 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| Alabama | 369 | not ranked | 1.4× |
Where Diann is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Diann is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1924 it was given 1.8 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 Diann 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 6 names spelled alike, given to 21,171 babies since 1880, Diann is the most given (58% of them).
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 Diann
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 Diann and names like it
- Compare Diann and DianBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1940sDiann peaked in 1947.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Diann since 1910.
- The top names of 1947The year the most babies were named Diann.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Diann alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with DMost given first.