# Diti (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/diti/  
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 | Sanskrit |
| Meaning | “cutting”, “splitting”, “dividing” |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 12 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 0 / 12 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 4, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit दिति (diti, “cutting, splitting, dividing”).

## 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 7 | 13,887 |
| 2018 | 5 | 16,338 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 4 | 4,764 |

## In other languages

- Hindi: दिति

## 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.