Girl · Latin
Diana
Say it: dy-AN-uh
Meaning
The Roman goddess of the hunt and the moon; her name is probably from an old Indo-European root meaning 'divine, of the sky'.
Likelythe main view, with some doubt.
Taken up as a given name in Renaissance Europe, and popular in the US from the 1940s.
Its wave through time
Fading since the 1940s
In the United States
- 363,168 babies given this name since 1880
- At its height in 1946, about 1 in 208 girls
- 1,222 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Dianna, Dyanna
| French | Diane |
|---|---|
| Italian | Diana |
Famous bearers
- Diana, Princess of Wales
- Diana Ross, American singer
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Where this comes from
- Roman literature and history (Livy, Cicero, Tacitus and others)
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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