girls:
518.5k births since 1898
#61 (99th percentile)
boys:
1.4k births since 1933
#3246 (29th percentile)
overall:
519.9k births since 1898
#127 (98th percentile)
The name Diane is the #127 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 519,884 recorded births since 1898. This represents the 98.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 98.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #61 (99.0% percentile) for all time with 518,500 births since 1898. For boys, it ranks #3,246 (29.2% percentile) for all time with 1,384 births since 1933.
Diane first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1898 (1898 for girls and 1933 for boys).
The name Diane has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.7% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Diane reached its peak popularity in 1955, achieving the 98.2% percentile (ranked #14) with 11,618 births per million. The name was most common in 1955, with 11,618 births per million (ranked 98.2% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2020, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Diane ranks #893 for girls (5.7% percentile) with 34 births per million, which is 0.3% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Diane reached its peak popularity in 1958, achieving the 8.6% percentile (ranked #608) with 29 births per million. The name was most common in 1958, with 29 births per million (ranked 8.6% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1993.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Diane".
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Our model has identified 7 different pronunciations for the name Diane. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 30.2% confident that Diane is pronounced as DAI-AN, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is DAI-an, at 22.6% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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