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Dianne vs Diavion

American parents have registered 95,475 Diannes since 1880, against 114 Diavions. Dianne is still ahead, with 21 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Dianne Diavion

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 2000, when Dianne had 66 and Diavion had 34.

Side by side

  Dianne Diavion
Total US births 95,475114
Most in one year 4,42134
Babies in 2025 21under 5
Estimated living today 70,000110
Median age today 7125
Peak year 19472000
Best rank 83rd girls4,400th girls
Rank in 2025 5,722ndunranked
First recorded 19111999
Girls / boys 95,289 / 18699 / 15

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 Diavions are over 25. That is 46 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: Dianne and Diavion.