Diedra vs Diego

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Diedra Diego

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

Of the 118 years in which either name was published, Diego for 107 years and Diedra for 11 years. The lead changed hands 12 times.

• 1887–1960 Diego ahead, apart from 3 short spells
• 1961–1965 Diedra ahead
• 1969–2025 Diego ahead

7 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.

Side by side

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 Diedras alive today are over 55; half the Diegos are over 18. That is 37 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

• Diedra Louisiana (9.8×), Texas (4.0×), California (2.2×)
• Diego Nevada (4.0×), Arizona (3.2×), California (3.2×)

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

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