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Diangelo vs Dianne

American parents have registered 95,475 Diannes since 1880, against 729 Diangelos. But in 2025 it was Diangelo that was commoner, 29 babies to 21.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Diangelo 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

Of the 111 years in which either name was published, Dianne for 109 years and Diangelo for 2 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Diangelo Dianne
Total US births 72995,475
Most in one year 294,421
Babies in 2025 2921
Estimated living today 71070,000
Median age today 2071
Peak year 20251947
Best rank 3,757th boys83rd girls
Rank in 2025 3,757th5,722nd
First recorded 19701911
Girls / boys 0 / 72995,289 / 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 Diangelos are over 20. That is 51 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 Dianne.