Dianna
Dianna was given to 68 girls in 2025, #2,566 among girls’ names; 56,356 Americans have been recorded with it since 1916 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 46,200 Americans named Dianna and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (82% of everyone recorded); the median is 63 years old and half are between 49 and 72.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dianna by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Dianna mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Dianna is “a female given name from Latin, a less common spelling of Diana.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Dianna?
#2,566 among girls’ names, 2025
Dianna fell from #1,783 in 2015 to #2,566 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 65.5 to 42.3 per million.
1,771 babies in 1957, the peak
Dianna peaked in 1957, when 1,771 girls were given it, #199 among girls’ names. The 68 births of 2025 are 4% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 68 | #2,566 | 0.04 |
| 2024 | 73 | #2,467 | 0.05 |
| 2023 | 80 | #2,292 | 0.05 |
| 2022 | 84 | #2,231 | 0.05 |
| 2021 | 91 | #2,089 | 0.06 |
| 2020 | 82 | #2,201 | 0.05 |
| 2019 | 84 | #2,207 | 0.05 |
| 2018 | 109 | #1,854 | 0.06 |
| 2017 | 87 | #2,190 | 0.05 |
| 2016 | 91 | #2,133 | 0.05 |
Every recorded year (109)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 117 | #1,783 | 0.07 |
| 2014 | 107 | #1,881 | 0.06 |
| 2013 | 111 | #1,828 | 0.06 |
| 2012 | 111 | #1,825 | 0.06 |
| 2011 | 143 | #1,534 | 0.08 |
| 2010 | 132 | #1,631 | 0.07 |
| 2009 | 153 | #1,496 | 0.08 |
| 2008 | 164 | #1,440 | 0.09 |
| 2007 | 198 | #1,251 | 0.10 |
| 2006 | 205 | #1,185 | 0.11 |
| 2005 | 219 | #1,089 | 0.12 |
| 2004 | 243 | #978 | 0.13 |
| 2003 | 197 | #1,116 | 0.11 |
| 2002 | 228 | #970 | 0.13 |
| 2001 | 265 | #860 | 0.15 |
| 2000 | 262 | #846 | 0.14 |
| 1999 | 257 | #841 | 0.14 |
| 1998 | 252 | #848 | 0.14 |
| 1997 | 248 | #835 | 0.14 |
| 1996 | 249 | #816 | 0.14 |
| 1995 | 245 | #807 | 0.14 |
| 1994 | 274 | #757 | 0.15 |
| 1993 | 279 | #743 | 0.15 |
| 1992 | 292 | #726 | 0.16 |
| 1991 | 333 | #657 | 0.18 |
| 1990 | 384 | #593 | 0.20 |
| 1989 | 374 | #584 | 0.20 |
| 1988 | 390 | #555 | 0.22 |
| 1987 | 374 | #539 | 0.22 |
| 1986 | 407 | #511 | 0.24 |
| 1985 | 446 | #473 | 0.26 |
| 1984 | 449 | #465 | 0.27 |
| 1983 | 488 | #434 | 0.29 |
| 1982 | 511 | #429 | 0.30 |
| 1981 | 452 | #471 | 0.27 |
| 1980 | 395 | #510 | 0.24 |
| 1979 | 418 | #488 | 0.26 |
| 1978 | 483 | #418 | 0.32 |
| 1977 | 467 | #438 | 0.30 |
| 1976 | 446 | #441 | 0.30 |
| 1975 | 501 | #404 | 0.34 |
| 1974 | 593 | #363 | 0.40 |
| 1973 | 638 | #341 | 0.44 |
| 1972 | 773 | #312 | 0.51 |
| 1971 | 910 | #300 | 0.55 |
| 1970 | 999 | #292 | 0.57 |
| 1969 | 1,051 | #273 | 0.62 |
| 1968 | 1,109 | #247 | 0.68 |
| 1967 | 1,109 | #253 | 0.67 |
| 1966 | 1,260 | #236 | 0.74 |
| 1965 | 1,284 | #240 | 0.73 |
| 1964 | 1,430 | #227 | 0.75 |
| 1963 | 1,513 | #221 | 0.78 |
| 1962 | 1,442 | #223 | 0.73 |
| 1961 | 1,521 | #221 | 0.75 |
| 1960 | 1,654 | #207 | 0.82 |
| 1959 | 1,567 | #209 | 0.77 |
| 1958 | 1,710 | #198 | 0.85 |
| 1957 | 1,771 | #199 | 0.87 |
| 1956 | 1,345 | #225 | 0.67 |
| 1955 | 1,387 | #217 | 0.71 |
| 1954 | 1,410 | #212 | 0.73 |
| 1953 | 1,399 | #211 | 0.74 |
| 1952 | 1,394 | #206 | 0.75 |
| 1951 | 1,536 | #187 | 0.85 |
| 1950 | 1,454 | #188 | 0.85 |
| 1949 | 1,555 | #176 | 0.91 |
| 1948 | 1,626 | #172 | 1.0 |
| 1947 | 1,540 | #185 | 0.87 |
| 1946 | 1,404 | #183 | 0.89 |
| 1945 | 1,133 | #182 | 0.87 |
| 1944 | 819 | #230 | 0.62 |
| 1943 | 771 | #250 | 0.55 |
| 1942 | 547 | #288 | 0.40 |
| 1941 | 378 | #338 | 0.31 |
| 1940 | 287 | #404 | 0.25 |
| 1939 | 197 | #474 | 0.18 |
| 1938 | 182 | #494 | 0.16 |
| 1937 | 146 | #559 | 0.14 |
| 1936 | 42 | #1,088 | 0.04 |
| 1935 | 43 | #1,059 | 0.04 |
| 1934 | 36 | #1,190 | 0.03 |
| 1933 | 26 | #1,447 | 0.03 |
| 1932 | 21 | #1,701 | 0.02 |
| 1931 | 8 | #3,287 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 16 | #2,126 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 13 | #2,468 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 13 | #2,527 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 12 | #2,741 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 9 | #3,316 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 16 | #2,307 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 14 | #2,558 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 11 | #2,968 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 6 | #4,584 | under 0.01 |
| 1921 | 8 | #3,750 | 0.01 |
| 1920 | 8 | #3,697 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 7 | #3,970 | 0.01 |
| 1917 | 15 | #2,225 | 0.01 |
| 1916 | 6 | #4,038 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Dianna a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Dianna has been given almost only to girls: 64 boys in 109 years of records.
Girls and boys named Dianna: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dianna, and how old are they?
46,200 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 82% of the 56,356 Americans ever recorded as Dianna. The median Dianna alive today is 63 years old; half are between 49 and 72.
The 2020 Census counted 47,528 people named Dianna (47,479 women and girls, 49 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 48,784 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 | 2,290 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 22,200 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 11,400 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 5,790 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,240 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,180 |
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 Dianna born?
The states with the most babies named Dianna are California, Texas and Ohio, with 27% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 6,333 | #3,219 | 1.2× |
| Texas | 4,349 | #2,705 | 1.2× |
| Ohio | 3,700 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Illinois | 2,766 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| New York | 2,558 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 2,340 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Indiana | 2,263 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Michigan | 2,262 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Missouri | 1,814 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Kentucky | 1,393 | not ranked | 1.3× |
Where Dianna is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Dianna is most over-represented in West Virginia: since 1916 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 Dianna 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 1,089,725 babies since 1880, Dianna is the fourth most given (5.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 68 of their 1,629 babies (4.2%), the third most given that year.
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 Dianna
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 Dianna and names like it
- Compare Dianna and DianeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sDianna peaked in 1957.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dianna since 1910.
- The top names of 1957The year the most babies were named Dianna.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Dianna alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with DMost given first.