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Didi

Girls' name

Diminutive of Dieter

Didi has been given to 192 babies in the U.S. since 1948. 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 1971, with 19 recorded.

Babies named Didi, 1992

1 in 768,000

Didi over time, 1880–2025

Girls
0510152018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Didi: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Dieter

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Didi means

Didi is a diminutive of Dieter.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Didi is used in German.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈdi.di/ for Didi.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Didi → Dieter. The family’s meaning is “people + army”, recorded in German with the source elements thiot and heri.

Origin, language, and formation

Didi is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Dieter.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 192 girls were recorded with the name Didi between 1948 and 1992. Its highest annual count was 19 in 1971; its best national rank was #3,400 in 1971.

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 Didi?

Didi had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1992, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1992
1 in 768,000
5 of 3,839,369 births
Among girls only
1 in 369,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1992
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
532,251 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Didi 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 1992 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 532,251 children born in 1992 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Didi. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Didis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Didi was born before 1968 — so the typical Didi is around 57 today.

Median birth year
1968
About 57 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
31.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
54.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
186
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 31.8% of all recorded uses (61).

Is Didi 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1971 (19)
Years since peak
54
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,400
1971

Spellings of Didi

Didi is not the most common spelling — Ida is, with 26.8% against Didi's 0.03%.

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.

Didi around the world

Where Didi 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
    2016–2016
    #5,785
    in 2016
  • South Australia
    2009–2009
    #818
    in 2009

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Didi 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
#3,400
1971
Peak year
1971
19 that year
First recorded
1948
Last recorded
1992
All-time count
192
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Didi

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

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Sibling names for Didi

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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