Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1971. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Diarra through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 432
- 78 boys · 354 girls
- Most popular year
- 1994
- 26 babies
- 2025
- 6
- #13,651 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +48%
- Rising
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 6 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 13,651 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for girls was 20 in 1994. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 423 as a first name in 2020; 971 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
People named Diarra
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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