Given name

Dijana

Dijana is a feminine given name from Latin. It is used in Serbo-Croatian and Slovene.

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Dijana comes from Latin.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

From Latin Dī̆āna.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

The story

Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1983. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.

From dated birth records

Dijana through the years

Babies since 1880
41
0 boys · 41 girls
Most popular year
1991
8 babies
2025
0
Outside the ranked list
2021–25 vs 2016–20
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Too few births to compare
024620002025Highest share 19910.0
Dijana in U.S. Social Security birth records, 1983–2025, per million girls born. Years with fewer than five births for a sex are not published and appear as zero. Use the arrow keys to step through years.

By the numbers

The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 6 in 2002. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 8 in 1991. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 652 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.

Dijana’s family of names

In Croatian usage, Dijana has a conventional equivalent in the German form Diana.

Walk Dijana’s family in the name graph

DijanaDyjanaDijannaDiana

Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.

Hover or tab through the constellation to see how each name is related. Bigger dots are names more people in the U.S. share.

Nicknames & forms 1

Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.

Spellings & scripts 1

The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.

Across languages 1

Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

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