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How popular is “Diana” in the USA?

Number of people named “Diana” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Diana” 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 “Diana” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Diana” by birth year

This chart shows how “Diana” 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
1880 10 0.000049632 10 100%
1881 7 0.000036328 7 100%
1882 8 0.000036112 8 100%
1883 10 0.000046094 10 100%
1884 15 0.000061612 15 100%
1885 13 0.000053975 13 100%
1886 13 0.000050917 13 100%
1887 16 0.000064675 16 100%
1888 6 0.000020035 6 100%
1889 20 0.000069217 20 100%
1890 13 0.000043132 13 100%
1891 16 0.000055813 16 100%
1892 20 0.000059813 20 100%
1893 24 0.000073796 24 100%
1894 23 0.000067909 23 100%
1895 23 0.000065523 23 100%
1896 30 0.00008392 30 100%
1897 18 0.00005188 18 100%
1898 27 0.000070782 27 100%
1899 31 0.000091382 31 100%
1900 29 0.000064408 29 100%
1901 23 0.00006651 23 100%
1902 36 0.000093087 36 100%
1903 26 0.000068206 26 100%
1904 36 0.000089223 36 100%
1905 31 0.000073127 31 100%
1906 38 0.000088692 38 100%
1907 35 0.000075206 35 100%
1908 55 0.000112555 55 100%
1909 44 0.000086068 44 100%
1910 55 0.000093108 55 100%
1911 56 0.000086919 56 100%
1912 86 0.000087039 86 100%
1913 101 0.000088822 101 100%
1914 152 0.000107319 152 100%
1915 157 0.000085679 157 100%
1916 159 0.000082195 159 100%
1917 149 0.000074249 149 100%
1918 209 0.000096264 209 100%
1919 213 0.000100936 213 100%
1920 232 0.000102535 232 100%
1921 242 0.000103662 242 100%
1922 267 0.000116637 267 100%
1923 284 0.000123345 284 100%
1924 277 0.000116308 277 100%
1925 304 0.000130287 304 100%
1926 325 0.000141556 320 5 97%
1927 351 0.000151335 351 100%
1928 407 0.000180014 407 100%
1929 539 0.000245876 539 100%
1930 564 0.000253678 564 100%
1931 538 0.000255656 538 100%
1932 661 0.000313079 661 100%
1933 728 0.000364101 728 100%
1934 861 0.000414577 861 100%
1935 809 0.0003871 804 5 99%
1936 834 0.000401429 834 100%
1937 1333 0.000625625 1333 100%
1938 1466 0.000662577 1466 100%
1939 1719 0.000780143 1712 7 99%
1940 2209 0.000959315 2195 14 99%
1941 2558 0.001049899 2544 14 99%
1942 3871 0.001417005 3857 14 99%
1943 4353 0.001542218 4337 16 99%
1944 4320 0.001605901 4311 9 100%
1945 6063 0.002285415 6047 16 99%
1946 7562 0.002366596 7544 18 100%
1947 7636 0.002119744 7622 14 100%
1948 7731 0.002239235 7706 25 99%
1949 7550 0.002166567 7535 15 100%
1950 7465 0.002130813 7447 18 100%
1951 7406 0.002010457 7396 10 100%
1952 7411 0.001951288 7393 18 100%
1953 7460 0.00193583 7439 21 99%
1954 7636 0.001918252 7624 12 100%
1955 7864 0.001958616 7846 18 100%
1956 7860 0.001906362 7851 9 100%
1957 9459 0.002250994 9433 26 99%
1958 9185 0.002221871 9169 16 100%
1959 8658 0.002082255 8637 21 100%
1960 8345 0.002008996 8327 18 100%
1961 8220 0.001984404 8198 22 99%
1962 7871 0.001950502 7841 30 99%
1963 7326 0.001850841 7309 17 100%
1964 7087 0.001822973 7070 17 100%
1965 5942 0.001638969 5927 15 99%
1966 5515 0.001586751 5505 10 100%
1967 5359 0.001578546 5339 20 99%
1968 5012 0.001483537 4994 18 99%
1969 4542 0.001306929 4525 17 99%
1970 4389 0.001216965 4373 16 99%
1971 4229 0.001232099 4211 18 99%
1972 3561 0.001132996 3547 14 99%
1973 3532 0.001170743 3519 13 99%
1974 3533 0.001162171 3513 20 99%
1975 2929 0.000970062 2912 17 99%
1976 2774 0.000914214 2760 14 99%
1977 2861 0.000900679 2845 16 99%
1978 2904 0.000914971 2885 19 99%
1979 2793 0.000839495 2781 12 99%
1980 2630 0.000763535 2615 15 99%
1981 3994 0.001154544 3971 23 99%
1982 4463 0.001272249 4430 33 99%
1983 4069 0.001174878 4039 30 99%
1984 4006 0.001148261 3964 42 98%
1985 3721 0.001042557 3686 35 98%
1986 3702 0.001040742 3669 33 98%
1987 3391 0.000940478 3355 36 98%
1988 3517 0.000951816 3489 28 98%
1989 3732 0.000970751 3686 46 98%
1990 3576 0.000904749 3547 29 98%
1991 3374 0.00086618 3342 32 98%
1992 3278 0.000853363 3251 27 98%
1993 3421 0.00090736 3388 33 98%
1994 3407 0.000916438 3369 38 98%
1995 3182 0.000868887 3167 15 99%
1996 2956 0.000810486 2950 6 100%
1997 3596 0.000991795 3585 11 99%
1998 3862 0.001049968 3853 9 100%
1999 3340 0.000904201 3328 12 99%
2000 3175 0.000839968 3166 9 99%
2001 3198 0.000854306 3198 100%
2002 2918 0.000780571 2907 11 99%
2003 3164 0.000832124 3149 15 99%
2004 3567 0.000933544 3554 13 99%
2005 3165 0.00082318 3159 6 100%
2006 2841 0.000718115 2841 100%
2007 3187 0.000797212 3182 5 100%
2008 2453 0.000624067 2444 9 99%
2009 1943 0.000508615 1943 100%
2010 1622 0.000438884 1622 100%
2011 1544 0.000422113 1544 100%
2012 1286 0.000351619 1286 100%
2013 1178 0.000323123 1178 100%
2014 1092 0.000294627 1092 100%
2015 1091 0.000294792 1091 100%
2016 1183 0.000322458 1183 100%
2017 1367 0.00038225 1367 100%
2018 1608 0.000457351 1608 100%
2019 1435 0.000413434 1435 100%
2020 1236 0.000369996 1236 100%
2021 1329 0.000392273 1329 100%
2022 1316 0.000388988 1316 100%
2023 1312 0.000396231 1312 100%
2024 1293 0.000388463 1293 100%

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