Diana
The girl's name Diana has been in the national records since 1880, with 369,771 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 244th. About 309,000 Dianas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 56.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Diana boys named Diana
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 369,771
- Estimated living today
- 309,000
- Median age today
- 56
- Peak year
- 1957
- Best rank
- 43rd
- Rank in 2025
- 244th
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 368,487 / 1,284
How old the living Dianas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 369,771 babies given the name since 1880, about 309,000 are alive — 83 in every hundred. Roughly 25,000 of them are children and 107,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1969 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Latin
Borrowed from Latin Diāna, short form of Latin Dīāna, derived by syncope from itc-ola Dīvāna, equivalent; roughly akin to Proto-Italic *deiwā (“goddess”) + Proto-Indo-European *-néh₂.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Dianas
- Diana, Princess of Wales (1961–1997)member of the British royal family and Princess of Wales
- Diana Ross (born 1944)American singer and actress
- Diana Rigg (1938–2020)English actress
- Diana Wynne Jones (1934–2011)English children's fantasy writer
- Diana Krall (born 1964)Canadian recording artist; jazz singer and pianist
- Diana Hayden (born 1973)Indian actress, television host, beauty queen and the winner of Miss World 1997
- Diana Taurasi (born 1982)American basketball player
- Diana Dors (1931–1984)English actress
People named Diana with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Diana is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Diana is most concentrated in California (1.7×), New Mexico (1.5×), Texas (1.4×), Indiana (1.4×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1957
The most popular girls’ names the year Diana peaked:
Diana elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Italy girls | Diana | 13,195 | — |
| France girls | Diana | 10,230 | 171st |
| Spain girls | Diana | 8,588 | 70th |
| Poland girls | Diana | 6,460 birth registrations | 61st |
| England and Wales girls | Diana | 3,423 | 266th |
| Portugal girls | Diana | 3,324 name registrations | 18th |
| Switzerland girls | Diana | 2,195 | 47th |
| Norway girls | Diana | 1,613 | 125th |
| New Zealand girls | Diana | 977 | 66th |
| Ireland girls | Diana | 923 | 188th |
| Belgium girls | Diana | 901 | 162nd |
| Scotland girls | Diana | 387 | 125th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Diana | 41 | 298th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Diana: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Diana | 1,320 | 0.106% | 62nd |
| French girls | Switzerland | Diana | 731 | 0.168% | 34th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Diana | 138 | 0.212% | 18th |
| Romansh girls | Switzerland | Diana | 6 | 0.161% | 15th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Diana is most concentrated in Ticino, where 0.21% of children were given it – 132 of them.
Diana: rank by region
In 2025, Diana was given 5 times or more in 3 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Diana | 262 | 21 |
| Wallonia | Diana | 100 | 25 |
| Brussels | Diana | 132 | 8 |
In 2024, Diana was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Diana | 6 | 3 |
In 2025, Diana was given 2 times or more in 16 regions of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dolnośląskie | Diana | 58 | 38 |
| Kujawsko-Pomorskie | Diana | 81 | 11 |
| Lubelskie | Diana | 60 | 18 |
| Lubuskie | Diana | 56 | 10 |
| Łódzkie | Diana | 65 | 22 |
| Małopolskie | Diana | 72 | 38 |
| Mazowieckie | Diana | 58 | 73 |
| Opolskie | Diana | 68 | 7 |
| Podkarpackie | Diana | 62 | 20 |
| Podlaskie | Diana | 47 | 20 |
| Pomorskie | Diana | 50 | 42 |
| Śląskie | Diana | 64 | 40 |
| Świętokrzyskie | Diana | 67 | 7 |
| Warmińsko-Mazurskie | Diana | 61 | 14 |
| Wielkopolskie | Diana | 72 | 27 |
| Zachodniopomorskie | Diana | 56 | 17 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Diana appears in the lists for Province of Hainaut (90th), Province of Liège (91st), Brussels-Capital Region (132nd), Province of Flemish Brabant (147th) and Province of East Flanders (250th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Diana by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 170 | 112th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Diana among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands girls | Diana | 11,779 | 17,912 |
| Finland girls | Diana | 1,217 | 1,730 |
| the Netherlands boys | Diana | — | 203 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Diana lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 30,019 women called Diana were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Segovia | Diana | 172 | 2.182 | 97 |
| León | Diana | 501 | 2.179 | 97 |
| Rioja, La | Diana | 302 | 1.823 | 106 |
| Pontevedra | Diana | 892 | 1.819 | 119 |
| Guadalajara | Diana | 248 | 1.764 | 116 |
| Toledo | Diana | 651 | 1.734 | 123 |
Listed in 52 of Spain's 52 provinces. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Diana against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.