How popular is “Dian” in the USA?

Number of people named “Dian” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Dian” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Dian” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Dian” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Dian” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Dian” by birth year

This chart shows how “Dian” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Males	Bias toward female
1912	5	0.00000506	5		100%
1923	6	0.000002606	6		100%
1924	6	0.000002519	6		100%
1925	8	0.000003429	8		100%
1926	8	0.000003484	8		100%
1927	7	0.000003018	7		100%
1928	12	0.000005308	12		100%
1929	13	0.00000593	13		100%
1930	26	0.000011694	26		100%
1931	18	0.000008554	18		100%
1932	59	0.000027945	59		100%
1933	51	0.000025507	51		100%
1934	44	0.000021186	44		100%
1935	44	0.000021054	44		100%
1936	44	0.000021179	44		100%
1937	57	0.000026752	57		100%
1938	111	0.000050168	111		100%
1939	125	0.000056729	125		100%
1940	125	0.000054284	125		100%
1941	175	0.000071827	175		100%
1942	196	0.000071747	196		100%
1943	196	0.000069441	196		100%
1944	173	0.00006431	173		100%
1945	196	0.000073881	196		100%
1946	287	0.000089819	287		100%
1947	242	0.000067179	242		100%
1948	199	0.000057639	199		100%
1949	189	0.000054236	189		100%
1950	180	0.000051379	180		100%
1951	198	0.00005375	198		100%
1952	147	0.000038705	142	5	93%
1953	178	0.00004619	178		100%
1954	153	0.000038435	153		100%
1955	140	0.000034869	140		100%
1956	142	0.000034441	142		100%
1957	136	0.000032364	136		100%
1958	133	0.000032173	133		100%
1959	135	0.000032468	135		100%
1960	105	0.000025278	105		100%
1961	98	0.000023658	98		100%
1962	88	0.000021807	88		100%
1963	81	0.000020464	81		100%
1964	72	0.00001852	72		100%
1965	68	0.000018756	68		100%
1966	64	0.000018414	64		100%
1967	58	0.000017084	58		100%
1968	44	0.000013024	44		100%
1969	38	0.000010934	38		100%
1970	40	0.000011091	40		100%
1971	37	0.00001078	37		100%
1972	22	0.000007	22		100%
1973	25	0.000008287	25		100%
1974	17	0.000005592	17		100%
1975	14	0.000004637	14		100%
1976	15	0.000004943	15		100%
1977	11	0.000003463	11		100%
1978	10	0.000003151	10		100%
1979	14	0.000004208	14		100%
1980	11	0.000003193	11		100%
1981	12	0.000003469	12		100%
1982	23	0.000006557	23		100%
1983	15	0.000004331	15		100%
1984	18	0.000005159	18		100%
1985	11	0.000003082	11		100%
1986	14	0.000003936	14		100%
1987	20	0.000005547	20		100%
1988	16	0.00000433	16		100%
1989	9	0.000002341	9		100%
1990	7	0.000001771	7		100%
1991	16	0.000004108	11	5	38%
1992	18	0.000004686	13	5	44%
1993	10	0.000002652	10		100%
1994	7	0.000001883	7		100%
1995	7	0.000001911	7		100%
1996	7	0.000001919	7		100%
1997	7	0.000001931	7		100%
1998	10	0.000002719	10		100%
1999	7	0.000001895	7		100%
2000	8	0.000002116	8		100%
2001	11	0.000002939	6	5	9%
2003	11	0.000002893	6	5	9%
2004	14	0.000003664	9	5	29%
2005	8	0.000002081	8		100%
2007	11	0.000002752	5	6	-9%
2008	12	0.000003053		12	-100%
2009	15	0.000003927	6	9	-20%
2010	8	0.000002165		8	-100%
2011	7	0.000001914		7	-100%
2012	5	0.000001367		5	-100%
2013	5	0.000001371		5	-100%
2015	13	0.000003513	5	8	-23%
2016	8	0.000002181		8	-100%
2017	8	0.000002237		8	-100%
2018	9	0.00000256		9	-100%
2019	9	0.000002593		9	-100%
2020	20	0.000005987		20	-100%
2021	9	0.000002656		9	-100%
2022	17	0.000005025		17	-100%
2023	11	0.000003322		11	-100%
2024	17	0.000005107		17	-100%

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