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Diamonte vs Dianne

American parents have registered 95,475 Diannes since 1880, against 518 Diamontes. Dianne is still ahead, with 21 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Diamonte against Dianne, 1880 to 2025 0 1.3k 2.5k 3.8k 5k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Diamonte Dianne

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

Dianne has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1911 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2024, when Diamonte had 11 and Dianne had 12.

Side by side

  Diamonte Dianne
Total US births 51895,475
Most in one year 464,421
Babies in 2025 under 521
Estimated living today 51070,000
Median age today 2671
Peak year 19971947
Best rank 2,201st boys83rd girls
Rank in 2025 unranked5,722nd
First recorded 19911911
Girls / boys 32 / 48695,289 / 186

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 Diannes alive today are over 71; half the Diamontes are over 26. That is 45 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Diamonte and Dianne.