Dyan

Last seen for girls in 2011 at #16,764 · #8,910 for boys in 2025, 8 births
Given to girls 93.6% of the time

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Peak · girls
1970 · 128 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
1,804
since 1939

Dyan over time

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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201939peak #979, 1970peak #6,128, 1992girlsboys
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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—#8,9108
2024—#9,8947
2023—#7,73810
2022—#10,8636
2021—#9,7147
2020—#12,0225
2019——
2018—#12,1565
2017—#12,2465
2016—#12,1855
2015—#12,0865
2014—#10,7176
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2011#16,7645—
2010—#12,2315
2009#15,2426—
2008—#12,5535
2007#12,6768—
2006#12,4208—
2005#16,4625—
2004—#11,3565
2003#13,8446—
2002#12,1877#10,6675
2001—#10,5565
2000——
1999#14,4115—
1998#10,1228—
1997#12,0706#8,1106
1996——
1995#10,5147—
1994#11,7786#8,8005
1993#8,7199#7,6386
1992#13,3175#6,1288
1991#7,98710—
1990#7,30311—
1989#5,83614#7,9055
1988#4,65318—
1987#4,47418—
1986#4,18619—
1985#3,41925—
1984#2,19245—
1983#1,99351—
1982#1,82259—
1981#2,11948—
1980#3,06928—
1979#2,93129—
1978#2,43136—
1977#2,71530—
1976#1,82051—
1975#1,36578—
1974#1,55362—
1973#1,60757—
1972#1,28080—
1971#1,118105—
1970#979128—
1969#1,64853—
1968#1,06698—
1967#1,23974—
1966#1,17882—
1965#1,85438—
1964#2,53024—
1963#3,17616—
1962#3,78212—
1961#5,3097—
1960#3,35714—
1959#2,59620—
1958#2,50621—
1957#2,34723—
1956#2,53020—
1955#2,10826—
1954#2,88915—
1953#2,07125—
1952#1,78131—
1951#2,06423—
1950#2,34118—
1949#2,34018—
1948#2,58915—
1947#3,24011—
1946#2,88012—
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First appearance
1939

The first year at least five girls were named Dyan! It came in at #4,250, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1939–1943, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

Where Dyan is popular in 1939

No state had 5 or more girls named Dyan in 1939, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Dyan
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 2011
  • Biggest jump: 669 spots in 1970 (#1,648 → #979)
  • Biggest drop: 139 spots in 1971 (#979 → #1,118)
Rise & fade · girls
31 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1939
  • Peaked 1970 at #979 (128 births)
  • Births halved by 1973, 3 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 1 yr
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 1 yr · 1970
Share of babies · girls
1 in 13,657
  • Highest: 1 in 13,657 girls born in 1970 were named Dyan (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 351,813 girls born in 2011 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1970s
  • 36.4% of all girls named Dyan (656) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2014
  • Mostly girls until 2013, mostly boys since
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Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1930s5#4,250 (1939)#4,250
1940s66#2,340 (1949)#2,799
1950s222#1,781 (1952)#2,323
1960s418#1,066 (1968)#2,514
1970s656#979 (1970)#1,780
1980s325#1,822 (1982)#3,376
1990s67#7,303 (1990)#10,691
2000s40#12,187 (2002)#13,805
2010s5#16,764 (2011)#16,764

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

Dyan in 1939

girls
#4,250
5 births · 1 in 219,322 girls

Top girls' names in 1939

  1. #1Mary54,900
  2. #2Barbara37,257
  3. #3Patricia29,701
  4. #4Betty23,639
  5. #5Shirley20,447
  6. #6Carol20,166
  7. #7Nancy19,723
  8. #8Judith16,625
  9. #9Dorothy15,169
  10. #10Margaret14,949
  11. #4,250Dyan5
More about 1939

girls

1,096,612 girls got a published name in 1939; 1 in 219,322 of them was named Dyan, which outranked 14.1% of the 4,950 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Dyan
  1. #3,782Zenola6
  2. #3,782Zonia6
  3. #3,782Zorina6
  4. #4,250Dyan5
  5. #4,250Abelina5
  6. #4,250Adelmira5
  7. #4,250Adine5

Tied with 700 names at #4,250; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1938
Risers
  1. ↑ 880April#1,805 → #925
  2. ↑ 865Karel#1,703 → #838
  3. ↑ 725Hedy#1,650 → #925
  4. ↑ 722Vivien#1,703 → #981
  5. ↑ 709Karon#1,547 → #838
Fallers
  1. ↓ 712Eulalia#972 → #1,684
  2. ↓ 446Shelvia#955 → #1,401
  3. ↓ 358Naoma#992 → #1,350
  4. ↓ 304Imelda#890 → #1,194
  5. ↓ 279Helaine#870 → #1,149

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

See the top 100 for 1939 →