Diane
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Latin, from Diana; Roman goddess of the hunt and nature
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/daɪæn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Diane is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country, where it is the 30th most common given name.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 432(inferred from the name graph)
- CACanada≈1 in 442
- USUnited States1 in 787
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Diane itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- #71 (measured from records)
- 9 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 604 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 432 (inferred from the name graph)
422,752 people, 2020
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United Kingdom, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Dina in CZ Czechia, Dayana in EC Ecuador and Diana in GE Georgia.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Latin, from Diana; Roman goddess of the hunt and nature.
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Diane counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #30 | 422,752 | 1 in 787 | 422K | Diane | 604 |
| GB United Kingdom | #45 | ≈150,000 est. | ≈1 in 432 | 51 | Diane | 299 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 101,562as Dana | 1 in 105 | 102K | Dina | 41 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 91,742as Diana | 1 in 184 | 92K | Dayana | 70 |
| CA Canada | #21 | ≈85,000 est. | ≈1 in 442 | 14 | Diane | 295 |
| MD Moldova | — | 21,754as Diana | 1 in 155 | 22K | — | 52 |
| GE Georgia | #105 | 10,736as დიანა | 1 in 372 | 11K | Diana | 65 |
422,752 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; MVČR — living population register 2017; INEC — civil registry names; e-services.md — living population register; Georgia PSDA/SDA civil-registry name statistics (per-token API). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Diane is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, French form of Latin Diana, name of the Roman goddess
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In French, French form of Diana; occasionally used in Ireland.
as a nameIrish first names
In English, A female given name from Latin, popular in the middle of the 20th century.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, Du latin Diana, déesse de la lune et de la chasse; prénom associé à la protection, à la justice et à l’orientation.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
In French, Latin, nom de la deesse Diana, associe a la lumiere et a la lune.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Diane Arbusb. 1923USAmerican photographer (1923–1971)
- Diane Cilentob. 1932AUAustralian actress (1932–2011)
- Diane Laddb. 1935USAmerican actress (1935–2025)
- Dyan Cannonb. 1937USnot in their usual nameAmerican film and television actress, director, screenwriter, editor, and producer (born 1937)
- Diane Keatonb. 1946USAmerican actress and film director (1946–2025)
- Hillary Clintonb. 1947USnot in their usual nameAmerican politician and diplomat (born 1947)
- Diane Venorab. 1952USAmerican actress
- Diane Laneb. 1965USAmerican actress
- Susan Wojcickib. 1968USnot in their usual nameAmerican business executive (1968–2024) Former CEO of YouTube
- Jill Kellyb. 1971USnot in their usual nameAmerican pornographic actress
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 100 sources across 57 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 422K | #110 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 348 | #110 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 66 | — |
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 2024 | 12 | — |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 8 | #6,360 |
| MD Moldova | e-services.md — living population register | — | 3 | #4,976 |
| CA Canada | Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender | 2024 | 2 | #1,544 |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Diane mean, and where does it come from?
- Latin, from Diana; Roman goddess of the hunt and nature. Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
- What are other forms of the name Diane?
- In the etymology graph, Diana, Dianne and Daiana are forms of the same name in other languages.
- Is Diane a male or female name?
- Diane is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- How common is the name Diane?
- In the United States, the national register counted 422,752 people named Diane in 2020, about 1 in 787 residents.
- How common is Diane compared with other names?
- In the United States, Diane is the 30th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
- In which country does Diane have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 423 thousand people named Diane, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled diane.
- How do you pronounce Diane?
- A machine transcription gives /daɪæn/ (IPA) for English.
What do you want to know about Diane?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/dianeThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Diane” — the 30th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.