girls:
95.3k births since 1911
#385 (93rd percentile)
boys:
186 births since 1941
#4400 (4th percentile)
overall:
95.4k births since 1911
#706 (91st percentile)
The name Dianne is the #706 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 95,439 recorded births since 1911. This represents the 90.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 90.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #385 (93.3% percentile) for all time with 95,253 births since 1911. For boys, it ranks #4,400 (4.0% percentile) for all time with 186 births since 1941.
Dianne first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1911 (1911 for girls and 1941 for boys). Birth data for Dianne is available in 109 out of the 113 years between 1911 and 2023 (109 years for girls and 22 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Dianne has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.8% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Dianne reached its peak popularity in 1946, achieving the 88.6% percentile (ranked #76) with 2,652 births per million. The name was most common in 1945, with 2,683 births per million (ranked 88.4% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Dianne ranks #930 for girls (1.8% percentile) with 13 births per million, which is 0.5% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Dianne reached its peak popularity in 1945, achieving the 2.1% percentile (ranked #525) with 12 births per million. The name was most common in 1945, with 12 births per million (ranked 2.1% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1988.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Dianne".
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Our model has identified 7 different pronunciations for the name Dianne. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 22.0% confident that Dianne is pronounced as DAI-AN, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is dai-AN, at 20.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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