Diamantina vs Diamond
American parents have registered 36,297 Diamonds since 1880, against 654 Diamantinas. Diamond is still ahead, with 131 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Diamantina Diamond
Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.
Who was ahead
Of the 118 years in which either name was published, Diamond for 81 years and Diamantina for 37 years. The lead changed hands 8 times.
- 1897–1927 Diamond ahead
- 1928 Diamantina ahead
- 1929 Diamond ahead
- 1930–1955 Diamantina ahead
- 1956 Diamond ahead
- 1957–1960 Diamantina ahead
- 1961 Diamond ahead
- 1962–1967 Diamantina ahead
- 1968–2025 Diamond ahead
Side by side
| Diamantina | Diamond | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 654 | 36,297 |
| Most in one year | 19 | 2,210 |
| Babies in 2025 | under 5 | 131 |
| Estimated living today | 390 | 35,000 |
| Median age today | 64 | 26 |
| Peak year | 1947 | 1999 |
| Best rank | 2,279th girls | 150th girls |
| Rank in 2025 | unranked | 2,017th |
| First recorded | 1916 | 1897 |
| Girls / boys | 654 / 0 | 33,733 / 2,564 |
A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.
Which name is older
Half of the Diamantinas alive today are over 64; half the Diamonds are over 26. That is 38 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Where each one is strongest
- Diamantina Texas (12.7×)
- Diamond the District of Columbia (4.1×), Maryland (2.3×), Louisiana (2.3×)
How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.
Both names abroad
Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.
| Country | Diamantina | Diamond |
|---|---|---|
| France | 20 | 180 |
Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.
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Related comparisons
Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Diamantina and Diamond.