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
- Peak · girls
- 1970 · 128 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,804since 1939
Dyan over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #8,910 | 8 | |
| 2024 | — | #9,894 | 7 | |
| 2023 | — | #7,738 | 10 | |
| 2022 | — | #10,863 | 6 | |
| 2021 | — | #9,714 | 7 | |
| 2020 | — | #12,022 | 5 | |
| 2019 | — | — | ||
| 2018 | — | #12,156 | 5 | |
| 2017 | — | #12,246 | 5 | |
| 2016 | — | #12,185 | 5 | |
| 2015 | — | #12,086 | 5 | |
| 2014 | — | #10,717 | 6 | |
| 2013 | — | — | ||
| 2012 | — | — | ||
| 2011 | #16,764 | 5 | — | |
| 2010 | — | #12,231 | 5 | |
| 2009 | #15,242 | 6 | — | |
| 2008 | — | #12,553 | 5 | |
| 2007 | #12,676 | 8 | — | |
| 2006 | #12,420 | 8 | — | |
| 2005 | #16,462 | 5 | — | |
| 2004 | — | #11,356 | 5 | |
| 2003 | #13,844 | 6 | — | |
| 2002 | #12,187 | 7 | #10,667 | 5 |
| 2001 | — | #10,556 | 5 | |
| 2000 | — | — | ||
| 1999 | #14,411 | 5 | — | |
| 1998 | #10,122 | 8 | — | |
| 1997 | #12,070 | 6 | #8,110 | 6 |
| 1996 | — | — | ||
| 1995 | #10,514 | 7 | — | |
| 1994 | #11,778 | 6 | #8,800 | 5 |
| 1993 | #8,719 | 9 | #7,638 | 6 |
| 1992 | #13,317 | 5 | #6,128 | 8 |
| 1991 | #7,987 | 10 | — | |
| 1990 | #7,303 | 11 | — | |
| 1989 | #5,836 | 14 | #7,905 | 5 |
| 1988 | #4,653 | 18 | — | |
| 1987 | #4,474 | 18 | — | |
| 1986 | #4,186 | 19 | — | |
| 1985 | #3,419 | 25 | — | |
| 1984 | #2,192 | 45 | — | |
| 1983 | #1,993 | 51 | — | |
| 1982 | #1,822 | 59 | — | |
| 1981 | #2,119 | 48 | — | |
| 1980 | #3,069 | 28 | — | |
| 1979 | #2,931 | 29 | — | |
| 1978 | #2,431 | 36 | — | |
| 1977 | #2,715 | 30 | — | |
| 1976 | #1,820 | 51 | — | |
| 1975 | #1,365 | 78 | — | |
| 1974 | #1,553 | 62 | — | |
| 1973 | #1,607 | 57 | — | |
| 1972 | #1,280 | 80 | — | |
| 1971 | #1,118 | 105 | — | |
| 1970 | #979 | 128 | — | |
| 1969 | #1,648 | 53 | — | |
| 1968 | #1,066 | 98 | — | |
| 1967 | #1,239 | 74 | — | |
| 1966 | #1,178 | 82 | — | |
| 1965 | #1,854 | 38 | — | |
| 1964 | #2,530 | 24 | — | |
| 1963 | #3,176 | 16 | — | |
| 1962 | #3,782 | 12 | — | |
| 1961 | #5,309 | 7 | — | |
| 1960 | #3,357 | 14 | — | |
| 1959 | #2,596 | 20 | — | |
| 1958 | #2,506 | 21 | — | |
| 1957 | #2,347 | 23 | — | |
| 1956 | #2,530 | 20 | — | |
| 1955 | #2,108 | 26 | — | |
| 1954 | #2,889 | 15 | — | |
| 1953 | #2,071 | 25 | — | |
| 1952 | #1,781 | 31 | — | |
| 1951 | #2,064 | 23 | — | |
| 1950 | #2,341 | 18 | — | |
| 1949 | #2,340 | 18 | — | |
| 1948 | #2,589 | 15 | — | |
| 1947 | #3,240 | 11 | — | |
| 1946 | #2,880 | 12 | — | |
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| 1944 | #2,946 | 10 | — | |
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| 1939 | #4,250 | 5 | — | |
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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 1968
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Minnesota#391 · 1 in 4,016
- Massachusetts#447 · 1 in 5,207
- Pennsylvania#567 · 1 in 7,018
- Michigan#724 · 1 in 9,922
- Ohio#943 · 1 in 16,522
Best ever in a state: #391 in Minnesota, 1968.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minnesota | #391 | 7 | 1 in 4,016 |
| Massachusetts | #447 | 8 | 1 in 5,207 |
| Pennsylvania | #567 | 12 | 1 in 7,018 |
| Michigan | #724 | 7 | 1 in 9,922 |
| Ohio | #943 | 5 | 1 in 16,522 |
| California | #1,092 | 11 | 1 in 13,982 |
| New York | #1,454 | 5 | 1 in 27,248 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Dyan
- 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)
- Debuted 1939
- Peaked 1970 at #979 (128 births)
- Births halved by 1973, 3 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 1 yr · 1970
- 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%)
- 36.4% of all girls named Dyan (656) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 2013, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1930s | 5 | #4,250 (1939) | #4,250 |
| 1940s | 66 | #2,340 (1949) | #2,799 |
| 1950s | 222 | #1,781 (1952) | #2,323 |
| 1960s | 418 | #1,066 (1968) | #2,514 |
| 1970s | 656 | #979 (1970) | #1,780 |
| 1980s | 325 | #1,822 (1982) | #3,376 |
| 1990s | 67 | #7,303 (1990) | #10,691 |
| 2000s | 40 | #12,187 (2002) | #13,805 |
| 2010s | 5 | #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 1968
Top girls' names in 1968
More about 1968
girls
1,640,389 girls got a published name in 1968; 1 in 16,739 of them was named Dyan, which outranked 87.0% of the 8,198 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,056Lily99
- #1,056Merry99
- #1,056Shantel99
- #1,066Dyan98
- #1,066Cristin98
- #1,066Fonda98
- #1,066Janene98
- #1,074Ami97
- #1,074Angella97
- #1,074Autumn97
Tied with 7 names at #1,066; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.