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Diangelo vs Dianna

American parents have registered 56,356 Diannas since 1880, against 729 Diangelos. Dianna is still ahead, with 68 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Diangelo against Dianna, 1880 to 2025 0 500 1k 1.5k 2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Diangelo Dianna

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

Dianna has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1916 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2025, when Diangelo had 29 and Dianna had 68.

Side by side

  Diangelo Dianna
Total US births 72956,356
Most in one year 291,771
Babies in 2025 2968
Estimated living today 71047,000
Median age today 2062
Peak year 20251957
Best rank 3,757th boys199th girls
Rank in 2025 3,757th2,564th
First recorded 19701916
Girls / boys 0 / 72956,292 / 64

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 Diannas alive today are over 62; half the Diangelos are over 20. That is 42 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: Diangelo and Dianna.