Dyani vs Dyann
American parents have registered 1,337 Dyanis since 1880, against 994 Dyanns. Dyani is still ahead, with 23 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Dyani Dyann
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 90 years in which either name was published, Dyani for 47 years and Dyann for 43 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.
Side by side
| Dyani | Dyann | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 1,337 | 994 |
| Most in one year | 73 | 46 |
| Babies in 2025 | 23 | under 5 |
| Estimated living today | 1,300 | 780 |
| Median age today | 21 | 65 |
| Peak year | 2001 | 1951 |
| Best rank | 2,211th girls | 1,383rd girls |
| Rank in 2025 | 5,410th | unranked |
| First recorded | 1974 | 1934 |
| Girls / boys | 1,317 / 20 | 994 / 0 |
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 Dyanns alive today are over 65; half the Dyanis are over 21. That is 44 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Where each one is strongest
- Dyani Florida (6.4×), California (3.8×), Texas (2.4×)
- Dyann California (5.0×)
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: Dyani and Dyann.