The name Diana means ‘divine, goddesslike’ and is a derivative of the Latin ‘diva’ meaning ‘goddess’.
Diana is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.
The name Diana isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Diana ranks 228. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 8 were named Diana. In total, there are currently 359,829 people – children, adults and seniors – named Diana living in the United States, which is approximately 0.11 % of the entire population.
The name Diana means ‘divine, goddesslike’ and is a derivative of the Latin ‘diva’ meaning ‘goddess’.
Diana was the ... Roman goddess of the moon, hunting, forests and childbirth.
Appearing throughout the time in the United States, the name Diana is a staple in the country: Girls have been given the name Diana for more than 140 years, according to official U.S. naming statistics. Diana is therefore one of only 432 girls’ names that have been given every year since 1880. Even beyond that, Diana is a very special name that peaked in popularity some time ago in the 20th century. Placed 42 Diana easily made it into the Top 100 of our SmartGenius stats for female first names and has never been more popular than back in 1946.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Diana was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
As many as 1,313 babies were named Diana in the USA in 2022, ranking it #217 on the list of the most popular girls' names for that year. However, it experienced its lowest point of popularity in 1888, when it was only ranked at #1,049 of all female names in our SmartGenius statistics – back then only 6 girls were named Diana.
There are only 537 different women’s names registered in every single state in the U.S., and Diana is one of them. However, Diana is not equally widespread in all states, but people in California seem to particularly fancy this name – the 63,513 women called Diana who live here are 0,426% of all female residents and push their name up to #30, easily placing it in the top 100 most common female names in California.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter D is quite common as an initial letter for girls' names. To be precise, 5.6% of all girls' names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of girls' names, by the way, are A, S and M.
With five letters, the name Diana is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Therefore: As 5.6% of all girls' names start with D, this initial letter occurs much more often than all 26 letters on average. And maybe interesting to know: of all the names that begin with a D, Dorothy is the most common.
If your name is Diana and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Diana, you can simply say:
Dinosaur
Igloo
Apple
Nut
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Diana
Diana
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
D
I
A
N
A
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
D
I
A
N
A
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Diana sounds like this:
