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How popular is “Diane” in the USA?

Number of people named “Diane” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Diane” by birth year

This chart shows how “Diane” 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
1898 5 0.000013108 5 100%
1899 8 0.000023583 8 100%
1900 8 0.000017768 8 100%
1901 6 0.00001735 6 100%
1902 6 0.000015515 6 100%
1903 8 0.000020986 8 100%
1904 14 0.000034698 14 100%
1905 5 0.000011795 5 100%
1906 12 0.000028008 12 100%
1907 11 0.000023636 11 100%
1908 18 0.000036836 18 100%
1909 20 0.000039122 20 100%
1910 33 0.000055865 33 100%
1911 35 0.000054324 35 100%
1912 52 0.000052628 52 100%
1913 72 0.000063318 72 100%
1914 75 0.000052953 75 100%
1915 99 0.000054027 99 100%
1916 102 0.000052729 102 100%
1917 93 0.000046344 93 100%
1918 80 0.000036847 80 100%
1919 87 0.000041227 87 100%
1920 80 0.000035357 80 100%
1921 72 0.000030842 72 100%
1922 111 0.000048489 111 100%
1923 115 0.000049946 115 100%
1924 123 0.000051646 123 100%
1925 122 0.000052286 122 100%
1926 116 0.000050525 116 100%
1927 159 0.000068553 159 100%
1928 616 0.000272453 616 100%
1929 796 0.000363112 796 100%
1930 742 0.00033374 742 100%
1931 857 0.000407244 857 100%
1932 1439 0.000681574 1439 100%
1933 1609 0.000804722 1603 6 99%
1934 1882 0.000906195 1872 10 99%
1935 2202 0.001053639 2197 5 100%
1936 2152 0.001035822 2146 6 99%
1937 3190 0.001497182 3175 15 99%
1938 3837 0.001734179 3827 10 99%
1939 4357 0.001977361 4339 18 99%
1940 5199 0.002257799 5172 27 99%
1941 6453 0.002648553 6428 25 99%
1942 9581 0.003507188 9550 31 99%
1943 11359 0.004024362 11326 33 99%
1944 10743 0.003993563 10710 33 99%
1945 12256 0.004619833 12223 33 99%
1946 15875 0.004968224 15835 40 99%
1947 17811 0.004944311 17775 36 100%
1948 16643 0.00482054 16607 36 100%
1949 17279 0.004958425 17251 28 100%
1950 17663 0.005041734 17636 27 100%
1951 19873 0.00539479 19841 32 100%
1952 21103 0.005556338 21063 40 100%
1953 21378 0.005547476 21350 28 100%
1954 22095 0.00555052 22052 43 100%
1955 23344 0.005814081 23291 53 100%
1956 22562 0.00547218 22518 44 100%
1957 22142 0.005269216 22089 53 100%
1958 20877 0.00505019 20815 62 99%
1959 20023 0.004815545 19972 51 99%
1960 17948 0.004320847 17909 39 100%
1961 16240 0.003920526 16204 36 100%
1962 14849 0.00367971 14819 30 100%
1963 13245 0.003346218 13195 50 99%
1964 12905 0.003319524 12866 39 99%
1965 10394 0.002866955 10364 30 99%
1966 8774 0.002524416 8750 24 99%
1967 7849 0.002311999 7818 31 99%
1968 6609 0.001956244 6584 25 99%
1969 5963 0.001715812 5943 20 99%
1970 5210 0.001444608 5186 24 99%
1971 4229 0.001232099 4209 20 99%
1972 3100 0.000986321 3092 8 99%
1973 2620 0.000868445 2603 17 99%
1974 2238 0.000736184 2227 11 99%
1975 1916 0.000634564 1909 7 99%
1976 1703 0.00056125 1689 14 98%
1977 1654 0.0005207 1644 10 99%
1978 1445 0.00045528 1434 11 98%
1979 1330 0.00039976 1330 100%
1980 1294 0.000375671 1287 7 99%
1981 1283 0.000370876 1272 11 98%
1982 1357 0.000386834 1351 6 99%
1983 1389 0.000401058 1378 11 98%
1984 1206 0.000345682 1198 8 99%
1985 1175 0.000329214 1170 5 99%
1986 1030 0.000289564 1015 15 97%
1987 903 0.000250443 895 8 98%
1988 826 0.000223543 818 8 98%
1989 811 0.000210954 802 9 98%
1990 738 0.000186718 730 8 98%
1991 716 0.000183813 711 5 99%
1992 616 0.000160364 611 5 98%
1993 550 0.000145878 543 7 97%
1994 450 0.000121044 450 100%
1995 441 0.000120421 441 100%
1996 391 0.000107206 391 100%
1997 373 0.000102875 373 100%
1998 358 0.00009733 358 100%
1999 306 0.00008284 306 100%
2000 326 0.000086246 326 100%
2001 260 0.000069456 260 100%
2002 282 0.000075436 282 100%
2003 252 0.000066275 252 100%
2004 271 0.000070925 271 100%
2005 241 0.000062681 241 100%
2006 210 0.000053081 210 100%
2007 226 0.000056533 226 100%
2008 201 0.000051136 201 100%
2009 134 0.000035077 134 100%
2010 140 0.000037881 140 100%
2011 127 0.00003472 127 100%
2012 121 0.000033084 121 100%
2013 109 0.000029899 109 100%
2014 123 0.000033186 123 100%
2015 92 0.000024859 92 100%
2016 101 0.00002753 101 100%
2017 87 0.000024328 87 100%
2018 71 0.000020194 71 100%
2019 72 0.000020744 72 100%
2020 75 0.000022451 75 100%
2021 107 0.000031583 107 100%
2022 84 0.000024829 84 100%
2023 60 0.00001812 60 100%
2024 83 0.000024936 83 100%

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