Dianna
Feminine · “heavenly”
Dianna is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 56,292 girls against 64 boys since 1880.
Dianna is Diana with an extra n — the Roman goddess of the hunt and the moon, whose name means, at root, bright or heavenly.
How old is the name Dianna?
Dianna first appears in US birth records in 1916 — 109 years ago. The typical Dianna alive today was born around 1961, making them about 64 years old. About 47,500 people named Dianna are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Dianna most popular?
Dianna peaked in 1948, reaching #172 nationally. Today it ranks #2564, 2,392 places below that high. See the whole 1948 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Diana to Dianna
The story of Dianna
Diana was a major Roman deity, absorbed from and identified with the Greek Artemis, and her temple at Ephesus was one of the wonders of the ancient world. The name became common in English after the Renaissance revived classical naming. Mid-century American families added spellings — Dianne, Dianna, Deanna — and Dianna appears in the registers in real numbers, peaking in the early 1960s.
Meaning
heavenly, divine
From the Latin Diana, built on an Indo-European root meaning 'sky' or 'daylight' — the same root behind the Latin dies, 'day', and behind Jupiter's own name. The goddess and the word are inseparable: she is the shining one.
How the name formed
- Diana
- Dianna
Related forms: Diana · Diana · Diane
Pronouncing Dianna
dy-AN-uh
Three syllables, stress in the middle. Dianna and Diana are said identically; the doubled n changes nothing.
Nicknames for Dianna
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
- 19571,771 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #172reached in 1948
- Change vs 2023
- −15.0%68 in 2025, from 80
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.
Dianna in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Diana in Latin — spelling variant
- Diana in Italian — spelling variant
- Diane in French — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, Florida.
Diannas among us
people named Dianna are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 23,636 born in 2025 was named Dianna
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Dianna
- #2564
- Dianna on the 2025 chart
- #247
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Dianna went to 68 girls in 2025, but Diana is the same name said out loud. Together the 3 spellings went to 1,350, which makes it the 247th most-given girls’ name of the year — 2,317 places above the chart.
- Diana1,277
- Dianna68
and 1 rarer spelling.
About 1 girl in 1,191 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 23,636 for Dianna itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Jeannine test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Dianna's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Jeannine climbed just as high around 1929, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Jeannine's path sketches the road Dianna is walking now.
Dianna sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Dianna is headed
Dianna should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Dianna beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Dianna in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A documented Roman goddess behind it, with a meaning that is both clear and vivid.
- The name is recognized in Latin, Italian, Spanish and English alike.
- Di and Anna are two short forms at very different registers.
- Diana is the standard spelling and the doubled n does no audible work.
- The clipping Di is a homophone of an unfortunate English verb.
- It is closely dated to the middle of the twentieth century.
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Frequently asked
- How many Diannas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 47,500 people named Dianna are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Dianna?
- Dianna is one of 2 recorded spellings. Diana is the more common one — 1,277 births in 2025 against 68 for Dianna.
- How popular is the name Dianna in 2025?
- Dianna ranks #2564 among US girl names in 2025, with 68 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Dianna?
- About 1 in every 23,636 US girls born in 2025 was named Dianna — 68 in all.
- Will my child share the name Dianna with classmates?
- Dianna will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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