# Dianne (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/dianne/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | Latin |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 95,475 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 186 / 95,289 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 36, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 39 | 3,860 |
| 2012 | 34 | 4,322 |
| 2013 | 36 | 4,094 |
| 2014 | 20 | 6,261 |
| 2015 | 26 | 5,166 |
| 2016 | 30 | 4,657 |
| 2017 | 17 | 6,885 |
| 2018 | 23 | 5,501 |
| 2019 | 18 | 6,492 |
| 2020 | 25 | 5,051 |
| 2021 | 20 | 6,010 |
| 2022 | 23 | 5,509 |
| 2023 | 22 | 5,601 |
| 2024 | 12 | 8,582 |
| 2025 | 21 | 5,775 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1948 | 9 | 2,656 |
| 1949 | 8 | 2,846 |
| 1951 | 12 | 2,280 |
| 1952 | 8 | 2,930 |
| 1954 | 11 | 2,491 |
| 1955 | 12 | 2,331 |
| 1956 | 6 | 3,633 |
| 1957 | 5 | 4,129 |
| 1958 | 5 | 4,101 |
| 1959 | 11 | 2,568 |
| 1962 | 7 | 3,389 |
| 1963 | 7 | 3,402 |
| 1964 | 9 | 2,905 |
| 1965 | 6 | 3,633 |
| 1988 | 5 | 7,585 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 3 | 4,137 |
| 2005 | 6 | 2,970 |
| 2006 | 3 | 5,061 |
| 2007 | 4 | 4,294 |
| 2008 | 3 | 5,545 |
| 2009 | 3 | 5,556 |
| 2011 | 3 | 5,785 |
| 2014 | 5 | 4,003 |
| 2021 | 3 | 5,581 |
| 2024 | 3 | 5,891 |

## People named Dianne

- Dianne Wiest, American actress
- Dianne Feinstein, American politician (1933–2023)
- Dianne Reeves, American jazz singer
- Dianne Fromholtz, Australian tennis player
- Dianne Foster, Canadian actress
- Dianne de Leeuw, Dutch figure skater and coach
- Dianne Doan, Canadian actress and dancer
- Dianne van Giersbergen, Dutch singer
- Dianne Burge, Australian sprinter
- Dianne Kay, American actress
- Dianne Primavera, American politician (born 1950)
- Dianne Pilkington, British actor and singer

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.