Diesel
#2,335 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Diesel has been given to 2,092 babies in the U.S. since 2001. In 2025 it ranked #2,335 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2014, with 156 recorded.
Babies named Diesel, 2025
1 in 56,200
Diesel 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Diesel?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 56,200
- 59 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 28,900
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #2,335
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 38,949 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Diesel 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 38,949 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Diesel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Diesels were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Diesel was born before 2014 — so the typical Diesel is around 11 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 58.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 2,092
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 58.9% of all recorded uses (1,233).
Is Diesel 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
- +839
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −456
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −1,062
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.42×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 37.8%
- Peak was 2014 (156)
- Years since peak
- 11
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 18.5% average annual change
Spellings of Diesel
Diesel is the most-used spelling, taking 47.4% of the 4,411 babies given a near-identical spelling.
Where Diesel is used
Across 2016–2025, Diesel was most concentrated in Utah — about 1 in 11,111 boys, against 1 in 32,190 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in 100,000).
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.
Diesel around the world
Where Diesel 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 & Wales1999–2020#3,334in 2020
- Scotland2005–2008#535in 2008
- Canada2005–2018#2,905in 2018
- South Australia1998–2013#276in 2013
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Diesel by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Diesel
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Diesel
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Diesel, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Diesel
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.