Diontay
Diontay was last recorded in 2013, when 5 babies were given it; 152 Americans have been recorded with it between 1989 and 2013 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Diontay by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Diontay?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #12,619, in 2013; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
16 babies in 1990, the peak
Diontay peaked in 1990, when 16 boys were given it, #3,641 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 5 | #12,619 | 2.6 |
| 2007 | 7 | #10,032 | 3.4 |
| 2005 | 5 | #11,906 | 2.5 |
| 2002 | 6 | #9,691 | 3.1 |
| 2001 | 8 | #7,726 | 4.1 |
| 2000 | 13 | #5,359 | 6.6 |
| 1999 | 5 | #10,335 | 2.6 |
| 1998 | 7 | #7,790 | 3.7 |
| 1997 | 10 | #5,751 | 5.3 |
| 1996 | 14 | #4,434 | 7.4 |
Every recorded year (17)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 10 | #5,598 | 5.3 |
| 1994 | 11 | #5,182 | 5.7 |
| 1993 | 7 | #7,016 | 3.6 |
| 1992 | 8 | #6,271 | 4.0 |
| 1991 | 7 | #6,697 | 3.5 |
| 1990 | 16 | #3,641 | 7.8 |
| 1989 | 13 | #4,084 | 6.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Diontay a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Diontay has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 17 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Diontay: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Diontay, and how old are they?
An estimated 147 Americans named Diontay and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 30 years old and half are between 26 and 34. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 145 people named Diontay (2 women and girls, 143 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 149 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 4,396 babies since 1880, Diontay is the fourth most given (3.5% of them). In 2025 none of their 25 babies recorded by SSA was a Diontay (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 Diontay
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 Diontay and names like it
- Compare Diontay and DionteBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sDiontay peaked in 1990.
- Michigan’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Diontay since 1910.
- The top names of 1990The year the most babies were named Diontay.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Diontay alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with DMost given first.