Dyani
Dyani was given to 23 girls in 2025, #5,450 among girls’ names; 1,337 Americans have been recorded with it since 1974 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,320 Americans named Dyani and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 13 and 27.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dyani by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Dyani?
#5,450 among girls’ names, 2025
Dyani fell from #5,166 in 2015 to #5,450 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 14.6 to 14.3 per million.
73 babies in 2001, the peak
Dyani peaked in 2001, when 73 girls were given it, #2,216 among girls’ names. The 23 births of 2025 are 32% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 23 | #5,450 | 14.3 |
| 2024 | 27 | #4,928 | 16.7 |
| 2023 | 30 | #4,588 | 18.7 |
| 2022 | 30 | #4,613 | 18.3 |
| 2021 | 19 | #6,239 | 11.6 |
| 2020 | 25 | #5,050 | 15.5 |
| 2019 | 16 | #7,119 | 9.5 |
| 2018 | 27 | #4,915 | 15.9 |
| 2017 | 33 | #4,317 | 19.1 |
| 2016 | 32 | #4,450 | 18.1 |
Every recorded year (50)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 26 | #5,166 | 14.6 |
| 2014 | 25 | #5,351 | 14.0 |
| 2013 | 35 | #4,178 | 19.9 |
| 2012 | 38 | #4,004 | 21.6 |
| 2011 | 34 | #4,275 | 19.3 |
| 2010 | 39 | #3,904 | 21.9 |
| 2009 | 30 | #4,841 | 16.3 |
| 2008 | 42 | #3,794 | 22.2 |
| 2007 | 31 | #4,719 | 16.1 |
| 2006 | 52 | #3,190 | 27.4 |
| 2005 | 36 | #3,968 | 19.5 |
| 2004 | 52 | #3,007 | 28.3 |
| 2003 | 66 | #2,467 | 36.1 |
| 2002 | 59 | #2,608 | 32.8 |
| 2001 | 73 | #2,216 | 40.5 |
| 2000 | 47 | #2,987 | 25.9 |
| 1999 | 50 | #2,749 | 28.2 |
| 1998 | 34 | #3,508 | 19.2 |
| 1997 | 44 | #2,781 | 25.3 |
| 1996 | 30 | #3,650 | 17.1 |
| 1995 | 14 | #6,352 | 8.0 |
| 1994 | 16 | #5,790 | 9.0 |
| 1993 | 13 | #6,736 | 7.2 |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,248 | 5.4 |
| 1991 | 13 | #6,702 | 6.9 |
| 1990 | 6 | #11,813 | 3.2 |
| 1989 | 6 | #11,230 | 3.3 |
| 1988 | 5 | #12,346 | 2.8 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,206 | 3.5 |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,441 | 2.9 |
| 1983 | 18 | #4,158 | 10.8 |
| 1982 | 11 | #6,040 | 6.5 |
| 1981 | 11 | #5,988 | 6.6 |
| 1980 | 13 | #5,314 | 7.8 |
| 1979 | 14 | #4,901 | 8.7 |
| 1978 | 16 | #4,316 | 10.4 |
| 1977 | 7 | #7,755 | 4.6 |
| 1976 | 10 | #5,699 | 6.8 |
| 1975 | 8 | #6,668 | 5.5 |
| 1974 | 10 | #5,454 | 6.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Dyani a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,337 Americans recorded as Dyani, 99% are girls and 1% boys. In 2025 it went to 23 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Dyani: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dyani, and how old are they?
1,320 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,337 Americans ever recorded as Dyani. The median Dyani alive today is 22 years old; half are between 13 and 27.
The 2020 Census counted 983 people named Dyani (943 women and girls, 40 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,166 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 74 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 160 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 729 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 356 |
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 Dyani born?
The states with the most babies named Dyani are California, Florida and Texas, with 80% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 121 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Florida | 69 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Texas | 59 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| New York | 32 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Illinois | 16 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| North Carolina | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| New Jersey | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
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 Dyani 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 896,772 babies since 1880, Dyani is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 23 of their 1,371 babies (1.7%), 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 Dyani
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 Dyani and names like it
- Compare Dyani and DianeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sDyani peaked in 2001.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dyani since 1910.
- The top names of 2001The year the most babies were named Dyani.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Dyani alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.