Diarra
#13,647 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Diarra has been given to 432 babies in the U.S. since 1972. In 2025 it ranked #13,647 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1994, with 20 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 82% girls, 18% boys all-time.
Babies named Diarra, 2025
1 in 553,000
Diarra over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Diarra over time
In 2025, Diarra went to 100% girls and 0% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Diarra?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 553,000
- 6 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 268,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #13,647
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 382,984 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Diarra sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Diarra. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Diarras were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Diarra was born before 2000 — so the typical Diarra is around 25 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 37.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 50.0%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 354
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 37.9% of all recorded uses (134).
Is Diarra 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
- −3,918
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +1,343
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.00×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 30.0%
- Peak was 1994 (20)
- Years since peak
- 31
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 33.7% average annual change
Spellings of Diarra
Diarra is not the most common spelling — Diana is, with 45.6% against Diarra's 0.04%.
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.
Where Diarra is used — girls
Across 1910–2025, Diarra was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,501,280 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1New York1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Diarra has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Where Diarra is used — boys
Across 1910–2025, Diarra was most concentrated in Michigan — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,313,832 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1Michigan1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Diarra has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Diarra around the world
Where Diarra 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.
- France1982–2025#1,669in 2025
- Canada2018–2018#3,384in 2018
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Diarra by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Diarra
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Diarra
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.