Diane

given name · English · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Diane is a given name, most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom, where it is the 40th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and , written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Latin, from Diana; Roman goddess of the hunt and nature.

rarermore common
  • CZCzechia1 in 105◐
  • ECEcuador1 in 184
  • GBUnited Kingdom1 in 279

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈849K ●

across 14 countries

#140 ●

of 16M given names

9 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
545 ●

13M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 105 ◐

Czechia

Spellings & scripts●

DianeLatin · English●6.6M records
ДинаCyrillic · Russian●580K records
דיאנהHebrew · Hebrew●41K records
ᲓიანაGeorgian · Georgian●17K records
ดีนาThai · Thai●561 records
ΝτιναGreek · Greek●510 records
ԴիանաArmenian · Armenian●119 records
디나Hangul · Korean●24 records
ዲአናEthiopic · Amharic●0 records

7 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Diana in DE Germany, NL Netherlands, PE Peru and 8 more, Dina in CZ Czechia, PL Poland, NO Norway, Дина in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan and Діна in UA Ukraine.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

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●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Diane is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
GB United Kingdom#40742,274681K rec.—4Diane229
RU Russia#123535,050196K rec.—#81Дина159
US United States#33422,40410M rec.1 in 787422KDiane545
AU Australia#67296,118252K rec.—86Diane236
CA Canada#25295,904279K rec.—14Diane226
DE Germany#142182,106169K rec.—1Diana254
UA Ukraine#134138,668148K rec.——Діна88
PE Peru#283117,10922K rec.—100KDiana71
PH Philippines#188106,25290K rec.——Diana129
CZ Czechia—101,562△341 rec.1 in 105102KDina46
EC Ecuador#8391,742△1.7K rec.1 in 18492KDiana76
BR Brazil—77,329△279 rec.1 in 2.7K77KDiana29

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English6.6M79%
  • 408K5%
  • Spanish240K3%
  • Portuguese230K3%
  • French213K3%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English6,553,48979%
407,7425%
Spanish240,1203%
Portuguese230,2953%
French212,9753%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Diane is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name518K records spelled Diane12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Philippines, Colombia

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian

    Also written Diané, Díãnę, Diãne, Díane, Diäne

  • a separate given name454K records spelled Diane2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Italy

    Also written Diané

  • French given name235K records spelled Diane4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Canada, United Kingdom

    Also written Diané, Dianè

  • Hungarian given name10K records spelled Diane4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Hungary, United States, Finland, United Kingdom

    Languages: Hungarian, Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Diänê

  • French (Côte d’Ivoire) given name7.0K records spelled Diane2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Côte d’Ivoire

    Also written Diané

69 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

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.

Over time●

010K20K30K19001950200023K · 1955

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Diane in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1898–2025
Yearrecords
18985
18998
19008
19016
19026
19038
190414
19055
190612
190711
190818
190920
191033
191135
191252
191372
191475
191599
1916102
191793
191880
191987
192080
192172
1922111
1923115
1924123
1925122
1926116
1927159
1928616
1929796
1930742
1931857
19321,439
19331,603
19341,872
19352,197
19362,146
19373,175
19383,827
19394,340
19405,172
19416,427
19429,551
194311,326
194410,710
194512,223
194615,835
194717,775
194816,607
194917,252
195017,636
195119,840
195221,063
195321,351
195422,053
195523,290
195622,518
195722,090
195820,811
195919,972
196017,909
196116,205
196214,823
196313,193
196412,864
196510,365
19668,750
19677,818
19686,583
19695,943
19705,188
19714,208
19723,091
19732,603
19742,227
19751,909
19761,689
19771,644
19781,434
19791,330
19801,287
19811,272
19821,350
19831,377
19841,198
19851,169
19861,015
1987895
1988818
1989801
1990730
1991711
1992611
1993543
1994450
1995440
1996391
1997373
1998358
1999306
2000326
2001260
2002282
2003252
2004271
2005241
2006210
2007226
2008201
2009134
2010140
2011127
2012121
2013109
2014123
201592
2016101
201787
201871
201972
202075
2021107
202284
202360
202483
202566

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 128 years between 1898–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1920194019601980Diane Arbus, b. 1923Diane Cilento, b. 1932Diane Ladd, b. 1935Dyan Cannon, b. 1937Diane Keaton, b. 1946Hillary Clinton, b. 1947Diane Venora, b. 1952Diane Lane, b. 1965Susan Wojcicki, b. 1968Jill Kelly, b. 1971
  • 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).

Evidence●

Attested in 99 sources across 57 countries.

Official registers attesting Diane
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020422K#110
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)202424K#71
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—14K#1,773
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)202213K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—13K#1,417
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—1.9K#1,404
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020675#35,796
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—411#3,178
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—390#2,520
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—389#5,440
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020348#110
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010329#61,123

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 2026-09-12 data build · 954 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Diane?
We estimate roughly 849 thousand people bear Diane (counting its spellings and scripts) across 14 countries in our records.
In which country does Diane have the most bearers?
Diane is most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom, where it is most often spelled diane.
Where is Diane most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Diane is densest in the Czechia — about 1 in 105 people — even though United Kingdom holds more of our records for it.
How common is Diane compared with other names?
In the United Kingdom, Diane is the 40th most common given name of 369,273 given names recorded there.
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.
What does the name Diane mean?
Recorded meaning: Latin, from Diana; Roman goddess of the hunt and nature.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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 40th most common given name in United Kingdom. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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