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Diba

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded; Persian origin

Diba has been given to 43 babies in the U.S. since 1997. 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 2024, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Diba, 2024

1 in 418,000

Diba over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Diba: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded; Persian origin

Persian

What Diba means

Diba is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Diba is used in English. Its origins include Persian.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 43 girls were recorded with the name Diba between 1997 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 8 in 2024; its best national rank was #11,367 in 2024.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Diba?

Diba had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 418,000
8 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 203,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
289,633 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Diba 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 2024 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 289,633 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Diba. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Dibas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Diba was born before 2020 — so the typical Diba is around 5 today.

Median birth year
2020
About 5 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
62.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
88.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
43
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 62.8% of all recorded uses (27).

Is Diba 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
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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 2024 (8)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
35.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#11,367
2024

Spellings of Diba

Diba is not the most common spelling — Lisa is, with 21.5% against Diba's <0.01%.

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.

Diba around the world

Where Diba 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.

  • England & Wales
    2004–2025
    #5,927
    in 2025
  • France
    1989–2022
    #7,723
    in 2022
  • Canada
    2007–2024
    #2,463
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2001–2001
    #711
    in 2001

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Diba 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
#11,367
2024
Peak year
2024
8 that year
First recorded
1997
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
43
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Diba

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

DibbieTaibaLabibaAribaSibaNeibaAkibaMakibaSahibaAkeibaDibanhiLibaAdibaMunibaLaibaNusaibaHibaHefzibaFaribaBaibaAtibaIbaLeibaZaiba

Sibling names for Diba

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

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