Diego
#14,942 for girls in 2025, 5 births · #158 for boys in 2025, 2,351 births
Given to boys 99.8% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2006 · 8,403 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- 10 yrsof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 126,160since 1887
Diego over time
Rank among boys' names. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #14,942 | 5 | #158 | 2,351 |
| 2024 | — | #145 | 2,511 | |
| 2023 | #13,462 | 6 | #135 | 2,747 |
| 2022 | — | #124 | 2,970 | |
| 2021 | — | #126 | 2,925 | |
| 2020 | — | #126 | 2,910 | |
| 2019 | #15,539 | 5 | #129 | 2,990 |
| 2018 | #13,793 | 6 | #135 | 2,884 |
| 2017 | #12,713 | 7 | #129 | 3,102 |
| 2016 | #12,876 | 7 | #130 | 3,201 |
| 2015 | #10,866 | 9 | #125 | 3,237 |
| 2014 | #16,513 | 5 | #129 | 3,171 |
| 2013 | — | #130 | 2,921 | |
| 2012 | — | #110 | 3,337 | |
| 2011 | #13,347 | 7 | #99 | 3,824 |
| 2010 | — | #86 | 4,719 | |
| 2009 | #12,429 | 8 | #76 | 5,414 |
| 2008 | #13,832 | 7 | #69 | 6,572 |
| 2007 | #6,552 | 20 | #58 | 8,216 |
| 2006 | #6,356 | 20 | #56 | 8,403 |
| 2005 | #10,128 | 10 | #62 | 6,942 |
| 2004 | #6,216 | 19 | #73 | 5,876 |
| 2003 | #7,998 | 13 | #83 | 5,121 |
| 2002 | #11,108 | 8 | #98 | 3,979 |
| 2001 | #9,351 | 10 | #139 | 2,833 |
| 2000 | — | #147 | 2,685 | |
| 1999 | #9,479 | 9 | #149 | 2,416 |
| 1998 | #14,122 | 5 | #187 | 1,807 |
| 1997 | — | #186 | 1,785 | |
| 1996 | #11,807 | 6 | #218 | 1,380 |
| 1995 | #10,514 | 7 | #228 | 1,298 |
| 1994 | #8,804 | 9 | #237 | 1,260 |
| 1993 | #8,052 | 10 | #299 | 914 |
| 1992 | #11,738 | 6 | #301 | 890 |
| 1991 | #13,147 | 5 | #295 | 879 |
| 1990 | #11,409 | 6 | #307 | 830 |
| 1989 | — | #315 | 759 | |
| 1988 | #11,798 | 5 | #348 | 596 |
| 1987 | #11,325 | 5 | #368 | 525 |
| 1986 | — | #417 | 421 | |
| 1985 | — | #467 | 343 | |
| 1984 | — | #473 | 317 | |
| 1983 | — | #509 | 275 | |
| 1982 | — | #527 | 262 | |
| 1981 | — | #586 | 211 | |
| 1980 | — | #628 | 193 | |
| 1979 | — | #722 | 144 | |
| 1978 | — | #721 | 136 | |
| 1977 | — | #686 | 152 | |
| 1976 | — | #760 | 119 | |
| 1975 | — | #684 | 145 | |
| 1974 | — | #712 | 133 | |
| 1973 | — | #766 | 108 | |
| 1972 | — | #788 | 103 | |
| 1971 | — | #799 | 101 | |
| 1970 | — | #800 | 103 | |
| 1969 | — | #846 | 82 | |
| 1968 | — | #968 | 57 | |
| 1967 | — | #875 | 67 | |
| 1966 | — | #819 | 79 | |
| 1965 | — | #897 | 67 | |
| 1964 | — | #945 | 65 | |
| 1963 | — | #984 | 59 | |
| 1962 | — | #1,038 | 54 | |
| 1961 | — | #1,028 | 58 | |
| 1960 | — | #1,167 | 45 | |
| 1959 | — | #1,068 | 52 | |
| 1958 | — | #962 | 62 | |
| 1957 | — | #1,199 | 42 | |
| 1956 | — | #1,511 | 27 | |
| 1955 | — | #1,313 | 33 | |
| 1954 | — | #1,311 | 33 | |
| 1953 | — | #1,378 | 30 | |
| 1952 | — | #1,749 | 19 | |
| 1951 | — | #1,643 | 21 | |
| 1950 | — | #1,289 | 31 | |
| 1949 | — | #1,297 | 31 | |
| 1948 | — | #1,656 | 20 | |
| 1947 | — | #1,363 | 29 | |
| 1946 | — | #1,642 | 19 | |
| 1945 | — | #1,772 | 15 | |
| 1944 | — | #1,438 | 22 | |
| 1943 | — | #1,486 | 22 | |
| 1942 | — | #1,298 | 29 | |
| 1941 | — | #1,411 | 23 | |
| 1940 | — | #1,894 | 14 | |
| 1939 | — | #1,879 | 14 | |
| 1938 | — | #1,521 | 20 | |
| 1937 | — | #1,576 | 19 | |
| 1936 | — | #1,723 | 16 | |
| 1935 | — | #1,390 | 24 | |
| 1934 | — | #1,551 | 20 | |
| 1933 | — | #1,361 | 24 | |
| 1932 | — | #1,651 | 19 | |
| 1931 | — | #1,770 | 17 | |
| 1930 | — | #1,964 | 15 | |
| 1929 | — | #1,378 | 27 | |
| 1928 | — | #1,647 | 21 | |
| 1927 | — | #1,748 | 20 | |
| 1926 | — | #1,466 | 25 | |
| 1925 | — | #2,193 | 14 | |
| 1924 | — | #1,380 | 29 | |
| 1923 | — | #1,941 | 17 | |
| 1922 | — | #2,347 | 13 | |
| 1921 | — | #1,980 | 17 | |
| 1920 | — | #2,231 | 14 | |
| 1919 | — | #1,695 | 20 | |
| 1918 | — | #2,260 | 13 | |
| 1917 | — | #2,732 | 9 | |
| 1916 | — | #1,698 | 18 | |
| 1915 | — | #2,458 | 10 | |
| 1914 | — | #2,271 | 9 | |
| 1913 | — | #1,945 | 9 | |
| 1912 | — | #1,746 | 9 | |
| 1911 | — | #1,387 | 7 | |
| 1910 | — | #1,193 | 8 | |
| 1909 | — | — | ||
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| 1903 | — | #1,130 | 5 | |
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| 1887 | — | #921 | 5 | |
| 1886 | — | — | ||
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| 1884 | — | — | ||
| 1883 | — | — | ||
| 1882 | — | — | ||
| 1881 | — | — | ||
| 1880 | — | — | ||
The first year at least five boys were named Diego! It came in at #921, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1887–1909, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Diego
- 13 spots since 2024 (#145 → #158)
- 32 spots since 2020 (#126 → #158)
- 33 spots since 2015 (#125 → #158)
- Biggest jump: 237 spots in 1958 (#1,199 → #962)
- Biggest drop: 106 spots in 1959 (#962 → #1,068)
- Debuted 1887
- Peaked 2006 at #56 (8,403 births)
- Births halved by 2011, 5 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: 10 yrs · run 2002–2011
- Top 1,000: 65 yrs · run 1963–2025
- Highest: 1 in 245 boys born in 2006 were named Diego (0.41%)
- Latest: 1 in 727 boys born in 2025 (0.14%)
- 44.4% of all boys named Diego (56,041) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 5 | #921 (1887) | #921 |
| 1890s | 0 | — | — |
| 1900s | 5 | #1,130 (1903) | #1,130 |
| 1910s | 112 | #1,193 (1910) | #1,939 |
| 1920s | 197 | #1,378 (1929) | #1,831 |
| 1930s | 188 | #1,361 (1933) | #1,639 |
| 1940s | 224 | #1,297 (1949) | #1,526 |
| 1950s | 350 | #962 (1958) | #1,342 |
| 1960s | 633 | #819 (1966) | #957 |
| 1970s | 1,244 | #684 (1975) | #744 |
| 1980s | 3,902 | #315 (1989) | #464 |
| 1990s | 13,459 | #149 (1999) | #241 |
| 2000s | 56,041 | #56 (2006) | #86 |
| 2010s | 33,386 | #86 (2010) | #120 |
| 2020s | 16,414 | #124 (2022) | #136 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Diego in 1994
Top girls' names in 1994
Top boys' names in 1994
More about 1994
girls
1,785,753 girls got a published name in 1994; 1 in 198,417 of them was named Diego, which outranked 44.1% of the 15,759 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 12.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #8,122Ziomara10
- #8,122Zofia10
- #8,122Zykia10
- #8,804Diego9
- #8,804Aalliyah9
- #8,804Aarin9
- #8,804Aasha9
- #9,586Aaliyan8
- #9,586Abagale8
- #9,586Abbye8
Tied with 781 names at #8,804; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,932,031 boys got a published name in 1994; 1 in 1,533 of them was named Diego, which outranked 97.7% of the 10,245 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.