Diane
Diane is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 83 births. Its best rank was 14th, in 1955.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 830.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 195523,291 births
- Best rank
- #14in 1955
- Since 1898
- 519,974people given the name
The story in the numbers
518,590 girls have been named Diane in the United States since 1898, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1955, with 23,291 births — 1.2% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 83 births in 2024, against 23,291 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1955, and the 1950s alone account for 41%. It has spent 98 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 35 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 1,384 boys have also been given it, 0.27% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Diane | |
|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 13 | |
| 1900s | 108 | |
| 1910s | 728 | |
| 1920s | 2,310 | |
| 1930s | 22,197 | |
| 1940s | 122,877 | |
| 1950s | 210,627 | |
| 1960s | 114,452 | |
| 1970s | 25,323 | |
| 1980s | 11,186 | |
| 1990s | 4,914 | |
| 2000s | 2,403 | |
| 2010s | 1,043 | |
| 2020s | 409 |
In 1955, its biggest year
Diane was the 14th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1955 were Mary, Deborah, Linda, Debra and Susan. See all of 1955.
Names that rose and fell with Diane
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Sheryllpeak 1955
- Pamellapeak 1954
- Lynnepeak 1960
- Sherrilpeak 1953
- Cathiepeak 1958
- Dremapeak 1959
- Sherrylpeak 1957
- Suzanpeak 1955
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.