Dianne is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Dianne is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 2 out of 100,000 girls have been named Dianne. In the SmartGenius ranking, Dianne is #4,682 on the list of most common girls names. In the entire USA, approximately 91,698 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Dianne. That is 0.03 % of all living Americans.
Who would have thought it? After many years of not appearing at all in the SmartGenius statistics, Dianne reached its highest rank ever in the year 1945 at #72. In other words: 3,627 newborn girls were named Dianne that year. Since then, it has been considered to be a universally popular name, chosen by a large number of happy parents every year. Although the times of its highest popularity are now many decades ago, Dianne is still going strong and has not been forgotten yet. We can only wait and see if there will be a new surprise in store and if Dianne will be able to top its all-time best ranking ever again.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Dianne was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, Dianne ranked 4,797 in our SmartGenius statistics. In absolute figures, this means it was given to baby girls a total of 23 times. No one knows what names (or combinations of numbers and letters) will be popular 50 years from now, but given its consistent popularity, there is a good chance that Dianne will remain a universally popular name.
Everyone knows her, everyone loves her and still she’s different from the mainstream: Dianne occurs in every single state of the U.S. This may sound quite unspectacular at first, but in fact, of the more than 50,000 different female first names that occur in the USA, just 537 are recorded in each individual state, so the name Dianne is definitely something very special. However, at the same time, since the name does not appear in the top 100 most common first names in any single state, Dianne is not one of those names that one encounters in every neighbourhood, but stands out from the crowd, is noticeable and special without being strange or unknown. From Alaska to Florida, a total of 91,698 women and girls of all generations bear the name Dianne – that is one in 1,681. However, there are considerable regional differences – the name is far more popular than average in South Dakota, where one in 692 women and girls is called Dianne, while it is particularly rare in Nevada, where you have to ask an average of 11,167 women for their name to get Dianne as an answer once.
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 six letters, the name Dianne is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. 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 Dianne 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 Dianne, you can simply say:
Dinosaur
Igloo
Apple
Nut
Nut
Elephant
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Dianne
Dianne
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
D
I
A
N
N
E
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
N
E
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. Dianne sounds like this:
