Girls' name · since 1915
Diantha
715 babies named Diantha in U.S. Social Security records since 1915, with the highest year being 1946. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- #9,389 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 715
- born since 1915
- 1940s
- peak decade
Diantha is not among the current top-ranked girls names; 715 have been recorded since 1915.
Diantha has 715 recorded births among girls since 1915, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1940s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1915 to 1998.
- #9,389 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 715 born since 1915
- 1940s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Diantha ranks #9,389 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 715 born since 1915, peaking in the 1940s.
- #9,389 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 715
- born since 1915
- 1940s
- peak decade
Diantha's 715 recorded births place it above 87.01% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Diantha's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Diantha splits its recorded history at 1953: 46% of all births land in the more recent half, 54% in the earlier half, an evenly balanced pattern over time. The single quietest year was 1916 (5 births) -- compare that against the 1946 peak of 26 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Diantha popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1915–1998
- Peak year (1946)
- 26
- Annual births at peak, across 84 years of records
Diantha by decade
1940s is the heaviest window (173 births, 24% of the file).
1940s was Diantha's strongest decade.
173 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 24% of all-time use.
Diantha births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1910s 35
1910s
35 births
- 1920s 36
1920s
36 births
- 1930s
1930s
73 births
- 1940s
1940s
173 births
- 1950s
1950s
167 births
- 1960s
1960s
111 births
- 1970s
1970s
72 births
- 1980s 25
1980s
25 births
- 1990s 23
1990s
23 births
What this shows Peak: 1940s at 173 births (24% of all-time use).
How Diantha compares to similarly-sized names
Years in SSA records vs. share of all-time use concentrated in the single peak year, among 15 girls names closest to Diantha's total volume
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What to do with Diantha's data
- Diantha's decade-level peak was the 1940s (173 total births); usage has since declined to 23 in the 1990s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Two nationwide peer axes for Diantha: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~1946)
Similar record span (~83 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1915–1998 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Diantha draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.