Diesel
#2,332 for boys in 2025, 59 births
- Peak · boys
- 2014 · 156 births
- Debut · boys
- 10 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,092since 2001
Diesel over time
Rank among boys' names. Diesel has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,332 | 59 |
| 2024 | #3,161 | 38 |
| 2023 | #2,290 | 61 |
| 2022 | #2,517 | 54 |
| 2021 | #1,903 | 80 |
| 2020 | #1,872 | 79 |
| 2019 | #1,790 | 86 |
| 2018 | #1,663 | 96 |
| 2017 | #1,439 | 119 |
| 2016 | #1,326 | 135 |
| 2015 | #1,271 | 141 |
| 2014 | #1,186 | 156 |
| 2013 | #1,285 | 135 |
| 2012 | #1,295 | 134 |
| 2011 | #1,364 | 123 |
| 2010 | #1,503 | 108 |
| 2009 | #1,413 | 119 |
| 2008 | #1,692 | 90 |
| 2007 | #1,830 | 79 |
| 2006 | #2,037 | 65 |
| 2005 | #2,567 | 43 |
| 2004 | #3,217 | 30 |
| 2003 | #3,366 | 27 |
| 2002 | #3,450 | 25 |
| 2001 | #6,445 | 10 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Diesel! It came in at #6,445, and was given to 10 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 2001, when fewer than 11 boys a year got the name.
Where Diesel is popular in 2017
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Washington#958 · 1 in 7,111
- Ohio#1,202 · 1 in 11,672
- Texas#1,218 · 1 in 12,583
- California#1,314 · 1 in 15,408
- Florida#1,362 · 1 in 13,810
Best ever in a state: #339 in Utah, 2012.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Washington | #958 | 5 | 1 in 7,111 |
| Ohio | #1,202 | 5 | 1 in 11,672 |
| Texas | #1,218 | 14 | 1 in 12,583 |
| California | #1,314 | 14 | 1 in 15,408 |
| Florida | #1,362 | 7 | 1 in 13,810 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Diesel
- 829 spots since 2024 (#3,161 → #2,332)
- 460 spots since 2020 (#1,872 → #2,332)
- 1,061 spots since 2015 (#1,271 → #2,332)
- Debuted 2001
- Peaked 2014 at #1,186 (156 births)
- Births halved by 2022, 8 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 12,313 boys born in 2014 were named Diesel (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 28,950 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 58.9% of all boys named Diesel (1,233) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 488 | #1,413 (2009) | #2,891 |
| 2010s | 1,233 | #1,186 (2014) | #1,412 |
| 2020s | 371 | #1,872 (2020) | #2,346 |
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.
Diesel in 2017
Top boys' names in 2017
More about 2017
boys
1,850,956 boys got a published name in 2017; 1 in 15,554 of them was named Diesel, which outranked 89.9% of the 14,262 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,433Francesco120
- #1,433Rowdy120
- #1,433Zayvion120
- #1,439Diesel119
- #1,439Aryeh119
- #1,439Devansh119
- #1,439Ewan119
- #1,449Brogan118
- #1,449Dezmond118
- #1,449Dov118
Tied with 9 names at #1,439; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.