Diego

#14,942 for girls in 2025, 5 births · #158 for boys in 2025, 2,351 births
Given to boys 99.8% of the time

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Peak · boys
2006 · 8,403 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
10 yrs
of 146 years
Total births · boys
126,160
since 1887

Diego over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201887peak #56, 2006boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#14,9425#1582,351
2024—#1452,511
2023#13,4626#1352,747
2022—#1242,970
2021—#1262,925
2020—#1262,910
2019#15,5395#1292,990
2018#13,7936#1352,884
2017#12,7137#1293,102
2016#12,8767#1303,201
2015#10,8669#1253,237
2014#16,5135#1293,171
2013—#1302,921
2012—#1103,337
2011#13,3477#993,824
2010—#864,719
2009#12,4298#765,414
2008#13,8327#696,572
2007#6,55220#588,216
2006#6,35620#568,403
2005#10,12810#626,942
2004#6,21619#735,876
2003#7,99813#835,121
2002#11,1088#983,979
2001#9,35110#1392,833
2000—#1472,685
1999#9,4799#1492,416
1998#14,1225#1871,807
1997—#1861,785
1996#11,8076#2181,380
1995#10,5147#2281,298
1994#8,8049#2371,260
1993#8,05210#299914
1992#11,7386#301890
1991#13,1475#295879
1990#11,4096#307830
1989—#315759
1988#11,7985#348596
1987#11,3255#368525
1986—#417421
1985—#467343
1984—#473317
1983—#509275
1982—#527262
1981—#586211
1980—#628193
1979—#722144
1978—#721136
1977—#686152
1976—#760119
1975—#684145
1974—#712133
1973—#766108
1972—#788103
1971—#799101
1970—#800103
1969—#84682
1968—#96857
1967—#87567
1966—#81979
1965—#89767
1964—#94565
1963—#98459
1962—#1,03854
1961—#1,02858
1960—#1,16745
1959—#1,06852
1958—#96262
1957—#1,19942
1956—#1,51127
1955—#1,31333
1954—#1,31133
1953—#1,37830
1952—#1,74919
1951—#1,64321
1950—#1,28931
1949—#1,29731
1948—#1,65620
1947—#1,36329
1946—#1,64219
1945—#1,77215
1944—#1,43822
1943—#1,48622
1942—#1,29829
1941—#1,41123
1940—#1,89414
1939—#1,87914
1938—#1,52120
1937—#1,57619
1936—#1,72316
1935—#1,39024
1934—#1,55120
1933—#1,36124
1932—#1,65119
1931—#1,77017
1930—#1,96415
1929—#1,37827
1928—#1,64721
1927—#1,74820
1926—#1,46625
1925—#2,19314
1924—#1,38029
1923—#1,94117
1922—#2,34713
1921—#1,98017
1920—#2,23114
1919—#1,69520
1918—#2,26013
1917—#2,7329
1916—#1,69818
1915—#2,45810
1914—#2,2719
1913—#1,9459
1912—#1,7469
1911—#1,3877
1910—#1,1938
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First appearance
1887

The first year at least five boys were named Diego! It came in at #921, and was given to 5 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1887–1909, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

Where Diego is popular in 1887

The SSA only publishes names by state from 1910 on.

See more about Diego
Momentum · boys
Falling
  • 13 spots since 2024 (#145 → #158)
  • 32 spots since 2020 (#126 → #158)
  • 33 spots since 2015 (#125 → #158)
  • Biggest jump: 237 spots in 1958 (#1,199 → #962)
  • Biggest drop: 106 spots in 1959 (#962 → #1,068)
Rise & fade · boys
119 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1887
  • Peaked 2006 at #56 (8,403 births)
  • Births halved by 2011, 5 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 100 for 10 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: 10 yrs · run 2002–2011
  • Top 1,000: 65 yrs · run 1963–2025
Share of babies · boys
1 in 245
  • Highest: 1 in 245 boys born in 2006 were named Diego (0.41%)
  • Latest: 1 in 727 boys born in 2025 (0.14%)
Era · boys
The 2000s
  • 44.4% of all boys named Diego (56,041) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1880s5#921 (1887)#921
1890s0——
1900s5#1,130 (1903)#1,130
1910s112#1,193 (1910)#1,939
1920s197#1,378 (1929)#1,831
1930s188#1,361 (1933)#1,639
1940s224#1,297 (1949)#1,526
1950s350#962 (1958)#1,342
1960s633#819 (1966)#957
1970s1,244#684 (1975)#744
1980s3,902#315 (1989)#464
1990s13,459#149 (1999)#241
2000s56,041#56 (2006)#86
2010s33,386#86 (2010)#120
2020s16,414#124 (2022)#136

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Diego in 1887

boys
#921
5 births · 1 in 20,282 boys

Top boys' names in 1887

  1. #1John8,110
  2. #2William7,470
  3. #3James4,767
  4. #4George4,284
  5. #5Charles4,031
  6. #6Frank2,883
  7. #7Joseph2,456
  8. #8Henry2,228
  9. #9Thomas2,151
  10. #10Edward2,125
  11. #10Robert2,125
  12. #921Diego5
More about 1887

boys

101,410 boys got a published name in 1887; 1 in 20,282 of them was named Diego, which outranked 13.7% of the 1,067 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 42.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Diego
  1. #819Woodie6
  2. #819Wright6
  3. #819Yancy6
  4. #921Diego5
  5. #921Ab5
  6. #921Abbie5
  7. #921Ada5

Tied with 146 names at #921; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1886
Risers
  1. ↑ 539Carey#959 → #420
  2. ↑ 521Santiago#959 → #438
  3. ↑ 471Annie#959 → #488
  4. ↑ 471Roderick#959 → #488
  5. ↑ 453Morton#845 → #392
Fallers
  1. ↓ 430Dell#491 → #921
  2. ↓ 420Hardy#332 → #752
  3. ↓ 409Brady#512 → #921
  4. ↓ 381Walton#540 → #921
  5. ↓ 368Milford#451 → #819

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1887 →