Diantha

Girls' name

Heavenly flower

Diantha has been given to 715 babies in the U.S. since 1915. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1946, with 26 recorded.

Babies named Diantha, 1998

1 in 735,000

Diantha over time, 1880–2025

Girls

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Diantha: meaning, origin, and history

Heavenly flower

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Diantha means

Diantha means “heavenly flower”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Diantha is used in Dutch (Rare) and English (Rare).

Another recorded pronunciation is /daɪ.ˈæn.θə/ for Diantha.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 715 girls were recorded with the name Diantha between 1915 and 1998. Its highest annual count was 26 in 1946; its best national rank was #1,782 in 1946.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

U.S. Social Security Administration: national name data and limitations

How common is Diantha?

Diantha had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1998, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1998: 1 in 735,000; 5 of 3,677,189 births
Among girls only: 1 in 353,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1998: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 509,768 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Diantha sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1998 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 509,768 children born in 1998 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Diantha. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Dianthas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Diantha was born before 1951 — so the typical Diantha is around 74 today.

Median birth year: 1951; About 74 years old
Biggest decade: 1940s; 24.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 11.9%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 398; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1940s — 24.2% of all recorded uses (173).

Is Diantha rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1946 (26)
Years since peak: 79; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 43.7% average annual change
Best rank ever: #1,782; 1946

Spellings of Diantha

Diantha is not the most common spelling — Diana is, with 86.0% against Diantha's 0.17%.

Diana86.0%368,487
Dianna13.1%56,292
Diandra0.45%1,944
Diantha0.17%715
Diania0.15%624
Iantha0.12%511

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Diantha around the world

Where Diantha ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

South Australia
1987–1987
#684
in 1987

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Diantha by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #1,782; 1946
Peak year: 1946; 26 that year
First recorded: 1915
Last recorded: 1998
All-time count: 715
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Diantha

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Diarra Diara Anvitha Diannia Diahann Diania Diandra Amrutha Diamon Dianah Diala Nishtha Teretha Aleatha Diavian Seretha Talitha Coretha Diani Luretha Tabytha Arnetha Tamitha Aastha

Sibling names for Diantha

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Jerrie Carolann Karolyn Elida Reta Janey Ernestina Cheryle

For a brother

Lupe Connie Fredric Felton Gale Frederic Ronny Truman

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