Diane vs Diantha
American parents have registered 520,034 Dianes since 1880, against 715 Dianthas. Diane is still ahead, with 66 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Diane Diantha
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
Diane has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1898 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.
The closest they came was 1918, when Diane had 80 and Diantha had 11.
Side by side
| Diane | Diantha | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 520,034 | 715 |
| Most in one year | 23,343 | 26 |
| Babies in 2025 | 66 | under 5 |
| Estimated living today | 394,000 | 470 |
| Median age today | 69 | 68 |
| Peak year | 1955 | 1946 |
| Best rank | 14th girls | 1,771st girls |
| Rank in 2025 | 2,607th | unranked |
| First recorded | 1898 | 1915 |
| Girls / boys | 518,651 / 1,383 | 715 / 0 |
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.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Diane and Diantha.