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Diana vs Diangelo

American parents have registered 369,771 Dianas since 1880, against 729 Diangelos. Diana is still ahead, with 1,277 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Diana against Diangelo, 1880 to 2025 0 2.5k 5k 7.5k 10k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Diana Diangelo

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

Diana has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2025, when Diana had 1,277 and Diangelo had 29.

Side by side

  Diana Diangelo
Total US births 369,771729
Most in one year 9,45929
Babies in 2025 1,27729
Estimated living today 309,000710
Median age today 5620
Peak year 19572025
Best rank 43rd girls3,757th boys
Rank in 2025 244th3,757th
First recorded 18801970
Girls / boys 368,487 / 1,2840 / 729

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 Dianas alive today are over 56; half the Diangelos are over 20. That is 36 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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