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Diamonique vs Diane

American parents have registered 520,034 Dianes since 1880, against 984 Diamoniques. Diane is still ahead, with 66 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Diamonique against Diane, 1880 to 2025 0 6k 12k 18k 24k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Diamonique Diane

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Diane has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1898 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1999, when Diamonique had 84 and Diane had 306.

Side by side

  Diamonique Diane
Total US births 984520,034
Most in one year 8423,343
Babies in 2025 under 566
Estimated living today 970394,000
Median age today 2669
Peak year 19991955
Best rank 1,874th girls14th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked2,607th
First recorded 19861898
Girls / boys 984 / 0518,651 / 1,383

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Dianes alive today are over 69; half the Diamoniques are over 26. That is 43 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Diamonique and Diane.