Diamantina
Feminine · “of diamond”
Diamantina is a Spanish adjective used as a name, and it is also a river in Australia and a town in Brazil, so the record cannot say which a family had in mind. The most famous diamond in the world carries a curse that was written by a dealer who needed to sell it.
How old is the name Diamantina?
Diamantina first appears in US birth records in 1916 — 109 years ago. The typical Diamantina alive today was born around 1950, making them about 75 years old. About 400 people named Diamantina are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Diamantina most popular?
Diamantina peaked in 1931, reaching #2205 nationally. See the whole 1931 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
The story of Diamantina
The Hope Diamond's curse is a sales document. The stone was cut down from the French Blue, itself cut from a large Indian diamond bought by a traveler in the seventeenth century, and it vanished during the revolutionary looting of the crown jewels before reappearing, recut, in London. The story that it brought disaster on its owners was assembled and heavily embroidered by dealers and newspapers in the early twentieth century, with Pierre Cartier generally credited with the most effective version, told to a rich American client who liked the idea of owning something dangerous. Several of the deaths attributed to it happened to people who never owned the stone. It is now in a national museum, where the curse is a label rather than a threat.
Meaning
of diamond
The Spanish adjective formed from the word for a diamond, so the sense is diamond-like rather than diamond. Spanish gives adjectives of this kind to daughters directly, which English does only through word names.
Pronouncing Diamantina
dee-ah-man-TEE-nah
Five syllables with the stress on the fourth, which is where Spanish puts it by default. Every letter is sounded.
Nicknames for Diamantina
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1916
- Most girls named
- 194719 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2205reached in 1931
- Change vs 1992
- 0.0%5 in 1994, from 5
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Diamantina in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Diamantina in Spanish — same name
- Diamantina in Portuguese — same name
- Diamantina in Italian — same name
Diamantinas among us
people named Diamantina are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
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Fashion outlook
Diamantina sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- Tina detaches cleanly and needs no explanation anywhere.
- The meaning is transparent to any Spanish speaker.
- Every letter is said, so the spelling follows from the sound.
- Five syllables is very long for American use and will be shortened.
- Diamantina, Diamanta and Damiana will all be written for it.
- It is a word rather than a name in Spanish, which readers hear first.
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Frequently asked
- How many Diamantinas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 400 people named Diamantina are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Diamantina in 2025?
- Diamantina is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
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- Diamantina will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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