Dian
Dian is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 459th, in 1946.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1946287 births
- Best rank
- #459in 1946
- Since 1912
- 5,566people given the name
The story in the numbers
5,368 girls have been named Dian in the United States since 1912, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1946, with 287 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 287 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1950, and the 1940s alone account for 37%. It has spent 25 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 198 boys have also been given it, 3.6% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Dian | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 5 | |
| 1920s | 60 | |
| 1930s | 579 | |
| 1940s | 1,978 | |
| 1950s | 1,537 | |
| 1960s | 716 | |
| 1970s | 205 | |
| 1980s | 149 | |
| 1990s | 86 | |
| 2000s | 48 | |
| 2010s | 5 |
In 1946, its biggest year
Dian was the 459th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1946 were Mary, Linda, Patricia, Barbara and Carol. See all of 1946.
Names that rose and fell with Dian
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Glyndapeak 1947
- Kayepeak 1947
- Carolpeak 1946
- Sherrillpeak 1947
- Glendapeak 1950
- Georgeannpeak 1947
- Rozannepeak 1943
- Judypeak 1947
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.