Dianne
About 95,475 American babies have been named Dianne since 1911, most of them around 1947. In 2025 it ranked 5,722nd. About 70,000 Diannes are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 71.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Dianne boys named Dianne
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 95,475
- Estimated living today
- 70,000
- Median age today
- 71
- Peak year
- 1947
- Best rank
- 83rd
- Rank in 2025
- 5,722nd
- First recorded
- 1911
- Girls / boys
- 95,289 / 186
How old the living Diannes are
born that year still alive today
Of the 95,475 babies given the name since 1911, about 70,000 are alive — 73 in every hundred. Roughly 500 of them are children and 51,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1954 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
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Diannes
- Dianne Wiest (born 1948)American actress
- Dianne Feinstein (1933–2023)American politician
- Dianne Reeves (born 1956)American jazz singer
- Dianne Fromholtz (born 1956)Australian tennis player
- Dianne Holum (born 1951)speed skater
- Dianne Foster (1928–2019)Canadian actress
- Dianne de Leeuw (born 1955)Dutch figure skater and coach
- Dianne van Giersbergen (born 1985)Dutch singer
People named Dianne with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Dianne is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Dianne is most concentrated in South Dakota (2.4×), Massachusetts (2.3×), Louisiana (2.1×), Maine (2.0×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1947
The most popular girls’ names the year Dianne peaked:
Dianne elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Zealand girls | Dianne | 2,314 | 26th |
| Scotland girls | Dianne | 375 | 133rd |
| Ireland girls | Dianne | 101 | 331st |
| England and Wales girls | Dianne | 36 | 2,970th |
| France girls | Dianne | 35 | 6,516th |
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.
Dianne 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 | Dianne | 1,492 | 2,398 |
| Finland girls | Dianne | — | 11 |
| the Netherlands boys | Dianne | — | 10 |
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.
Related names
Dianne 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.