Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Diann is a form of Diane. Diane comes from French, and ultimately from Latin.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1924. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin. Diann is a variant of Diane. The history of Diane gives this family its wider story. In mythological stories, Diane is associated with the goddess of the moon and the hunt.
Combines direct and name-family evidence
Diann through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 12,252
- 0 boys · 12,252 girls
- Most popular year
- 1947
- 557 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 2014. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 557 in 1947. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 9,672 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 4
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Diann
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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