Diona
Diona was last recorded in 2021, when 5 babies were given it; 1,509 Americans have been recorded with it between 1942 and 2021 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,420 Americans named Diona and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 40 years old and half are between 30 and 52.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Diona by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Diona?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,872, in 2021; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
55 babies in 1994, the peak
Diona peaked in 1994, when 55 girls were given it, #2,354 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 5 | #15,872 | 3.0 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,481 | 5.6 |
| 2017 | 8 | #11,944 | 4.6 |
| 2016 | 9 | #11,102 | 5.1 |
| 2015 | 6 | #14,993 | 3.4 |
| 2014 | 8 | #12,229 | 4.5 |
| 2013 | 8 | #12,302 | 4.6 |
| 2012 | 5 | #17,587 | 2.8 |
| 2011 | 11 | #9,907 | 6.3 |
| 2010 | 21 | #6,238 | 11.8 |
Every recorded year (72)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 12 | #9,549 | 6.5 |
| 2008 | 19 | #6,872 | 10.0 |
| 2007 | 15 | #8,207 | 7.8 |
| 2006 | 16 | #7,583 | 8.4 |
| 2005 | 16 | #7,228 | 8.7 |
| 2004 | 10 | #10,115 | 5.4 |
| 2003 | 12 | #8,660 | 6.6 |
| 2002 | 15 | #7,150 | 8.3 |
| 2001 | 25 | #4,725 | 13.9 |
| 2000 | 30 | #4,093 | 16.5 |
| 1999 | 27 | #4,228 | 15.2 |
| 1998 | 33 | #3,590 | 18.7 |
| 1997 | 21 | #4,877 | 12.1 |
| 1996 | 32 | #3,520 | 18.3 |
| 1995 | 30 | #3,606 | 17.1 |
| 1994 | 55 | #2,354 | 30.8 |
| 1993 | 42 | #2,838 | 23.2 |
| 1992 | 24 | #4,269 | 13.0 |
| 1991 | 33 | #3,313 | 17.6 |
| 1990 | 42 | #2,749 | 22.1 |
| 1989 | 31 | #3,336 | 16.8 |
| 1988 | 29 | #3,321 | 16.3 |
| 1987 | 35 | #2,794 | 20.1 |
| 1986 | 37 | #2,635 | 21.6 |
| 1985 | 40 | #2,446 | 23.2 |
| 1984 | 26 | #3,251 | 15.4 |
| 1983 | 31 | #2,800 | 18.6 |
| 1982 | 25 | #3,359 | 14.8 |
| 1981 | 41 | #2,385 | 24.6 |
| 1980 | 34 | #2,707 | 20.5 |
| 1979 | 36 | #2,540 | 22.4 |
| 1978 | 28 | #2,887 | 18.3 |
| 1977 | 36 | #2,435 | 23.5 |
| 1976 | 26 | #2,883 | 17.7 |
| 1975 | 31 | #2,527 | 21.3 |
| 1974 | 38 | #2,143 | 25.9 |
| 1973 | 28 | #2,582 | 19.2 |
| 1972 | 32 | #2,323 | 21.0 |
| 1971 | 40 | #2,075 | 24.0 |
| 1970 | 30 | #2,464 | 17.2 |
| 1969 | 39 | #2,007 | 23.1 |
| 1968 | 27 | #2,379 | 16.5 |
| 1967 | 18 | #2,989 | 10.9 |
| 1966 | 12 | #3,789 | 7.1 |
| 1965 | 13 | #3,597 | 7.4 |
| 1964 | 17 | #3,143 | 9.0 |
| 1963 | 14 | #3,497 | 7.3 |
| 1962 | 5 | #6,819 | 2.5 |
| 1961 | 8 | #4,991 | 4.0 |
| 1960 | 12 | #3,746 | 5.9 |
| 1959 | 9 | #4,378 | 4.4 |
| 1958 | 7 | #5,022 | 3.5 |
| 1957 | 9 | #4,301 | 4.4 |
| 1953 | 7 | #4,689 | 3.7 |
| 1951 | 5 | #5,612 | 2.8 |
| 1950 | 8 | #4,039 | 4.7 |
| 1949 | 7 | #4,336 | 4.1 |
| 1948 | 12 | #3,010 | 7.1 |
| 1947 | 6 | #4,884 | 3.4 |
| 1945 | 10 | #2,962 | 7.7 |
| 1944 | 6 | #4,176 | 4.5 |
| 1942 | 5 | #4,782 | 3.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Diona a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Diona has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 72 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Diona: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Diona, and how old are they?
1,420 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 94% of the 1,509 Americans ever recorded as Diona. The median Diona alive today is 40 years old; half are between 30 and 52.
The 2020 Census counted 1,248 people named Diona (1,243 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,436 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% 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 | 12 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 100 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 436 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 538 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 285 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 53 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 1,004,361 babies since 1880, Diona is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 1,642 babies recorded by SSA was a Diona (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 Diona
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 Diona and names like it
- Compare Diona and DianeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sDiona peaked in 1994.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Diona since 1910.
- The top names of 1994The year the most babies were named Diona.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Diona alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with DMost given first.