Diana
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Diana is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Colombia it is the 14th most common given name. In English, recorded as Latin ‘divine’; Roman goddess of hunting and the moon.
- COColombia≈1 in 155(inferred from the name graph)
- ECEcuador1 in 184
- RORomania≈1 in 236
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- #534 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 534 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 155 (inferred from the name graph)
369,707 people, 2020
of 15M given names
Highest-authority source
Colombia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Diāna in LV Latvia.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Latin from *Diviana, from PIE *deieu- 'bright, sky, divine'; name of the lunar goddess, perhaps 'heavenly' or 'daughter of Jupiter'.
Sources 1
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
How Diana is read(measured from records)
Diana is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English44%
Latin ‘divine’; Roman goddess of hunting and the moon.
as a nameIrish first names
The daughter of Latona and Jupiter, and twin sister of Apollo; the goddess of the hunt, associated wild animals and the forest or wilderness, and an emblem of chastity; the Roman counterpart of Artemis.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish31%
Latin from *Diviana, from PIE *deieu- 'bright, sky, divine'; name of the lunar goddess, perhaps 'heavenly' or 'daughter of Jupiter'.
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Diana 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 | #611 | 369,707 | 1 in 900 | 369K | Diana | 534 |
| CO Colombia | #14 | ≈320,000 est. | ≈1 in 155 | — | Diana | 234 |
| EC Ecuador | #35 | 91,742 | 1 in 184 | 92K | Diana | 115 |
| RO Romania | #56 | ≈90,000 est. | ≈1 in 236 | — | Diana | 148 |
| PH Philippines | #444 | ≈84,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | — | Diana | 138 |
| MD Moldova | #72 | 21,754 | 1 in 155 | 22K | Diana | 58 |
| LV Latvia | — | 9,048 | 1 in 208 | 9K | Diāna | 44 |
369,707 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; INEC — civil registry names; e-services.md — living population register; PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register). 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)
Diana is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Portuguese, Diana (Roman goddess)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, do nome da deusa Diana; sobrenome matronímico, também ligado a diana 'fada, feiticeira'
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In Italian, Nome della dea romana Diana; nel medioevo italiano fu anche usato come nome cristiano, forse abbreviazione di Verdiana/Veridiana.
as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani
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)
- Lillian Gishb. 1893USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress (1893–1993)
- Diana Wynne Jonesb. 1934GBEnglish children's fantasy writer (1934–2011)
- Diana Riggb. 1938GBEnglish actress (1938–2020)
- Diana, Princess of Walesb. 1961GBmember of the British royal family and Princess of Wales (1961–1997)
- Stephanie Wilsonb. 1966USnot in their usual nameAmerican engineer and NASA astronaut
- Diana Damraub. 1971DEGerman soprano opera singer
- Sienna Millerb. 1981USnot in their usual nameBritish-American actress
- Naokob. 2007RUnot in their usual nameRussian street musician (born 2007)
- Princess Charlotte of Walesb. 2015GBnot in their usual namedaughter of William, Prince of Wales, and Catherine, Princess of Wales
- Princess Lilibet of Sussexb. 2021USnot in their usual namedaughter of Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and Meghan Markle, Duchess of Sussex
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 156 sources across 77 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 369K | #131 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 92K | #5 |
| MD Moldova | e-services.md — living population register | — | 22K | #54 |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register) | — | 1.7K | — |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup) | — | 1.7K | #300 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 426 | #131 |
Reference works 9
- 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)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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
- Where does the name Diana come from?
- Latin from *Diviana, from PIE *deieu- 'bright, sky, divine'; name of the lunar goddess, perhaps 'heavenly' or 'daughter of Jupiter'. Recorded by Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios.
- What are other forms of the name Diana?
- In the etymology graph, Diane, Dianne and Daiana are forms of the same name in other languages.
- What does the name Diana mean?
- In English, Latin ‘divine’; Roman goddess of hunting and the moon.
- Is Diana a male or female name?
- Diana 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.
- In which country does Diana have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 370 thousand people named Diana, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled diana.
- How common is the name Diana?
- In the United States, the national register counted 369,707 people named Diana in 2020, about 1 in 900 residents.
- How common is Diana compared with other names?
- In the United States, Diana is the 611th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
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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, “Diana” — the 611th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.