girls:
695 births since 1980
#5021 (12th percentile)
boys:
89 births since 2008
#4497 (2nd percentile)
overall:
784 births since 1980
#6955 (10th percentile)
The name Diem is the #6,955 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 784 recorded births since 1980. This represents the 10.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 10.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,021 (12.1% percentile) for all time with 695 births since 1980. For boys, it ranks #4,497 (1.9% percentile) for all time with 89 births since 2008.
Diem first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1980 (1980 for girls and 2008 for boys). Birth data for Diem is available in 33 out of the 44 years between 1980 and 2023 (33 years for girls and 14 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 Diem has been given predominantly to girls, with 88.6% of all recorded births being female. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Diem were girls.
For girls, Diem reached its peak popularity in 2012, achieving the 5.6% percentile (ranked #885) with 29 births per million. The name was most common in 2012, with 29 births per million (ranked 5.6% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2016, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Diem ranks #946 for girls (0.1% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 11.7% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Diem reached its peak popularity in 2018, achieving the 0.4% percentile (ranked #909) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 2018, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Diem".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Diem. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 67.4% confident that Diem is pronounced as deem, which has 1 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is DEE-uhm, at 18.6% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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