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In the English-speaking world, Diane was ultimately MUCH more widely used and more popular than Diana.
https://www.behindthename.com/name/dianaIn the USA, from 1928 to 1970, Diane ranked higher and more popular that Diana. From After that, beginning 1971, Diana became more popular during the 70s.
https://www.behindthename.com/name/diane/top/united-states?compare=dianaIn Canada, Australia and New Zealand, both it and Dianne were more popular than Diana during Diane's popularity spike.
https://www.behindthename.com/name/dianne
https://www.behindthename.com/name/diane/top/australia-nsw?compare=diana%20dianna
https://www.behindthename.com/name/diane/top/new-zealand?compare=diana%20diana
https://www.behindthename.com/name/diane/top/canada?compare=diana%20diannaAccording to the National Records of Scotland, Diane is also getting popular in Scotland—reaching its peak popularity in Scotland in 1964. Meanwhile Diana isn't in the rankings in the National Records of Scotland.
https://www.behindthename.com/name/diane/top/scotland?compare=dianaCompare Diana—with a total of at around 365k girls with the name according to the USA Social Security Administration since 2021...
https://www.popular-babynames.com/name/diana
https://forebears.io/forenames/diana
https://www.names.org/n/diana/aboutWith Diane—at around 520k girls with the name according to the USA Social Security Administration since 2021.
https://www.popular-babynames.com/name/diane
https://forebears.io/forenames/diane
https://www.names.org/n/diane/aboutAlso of Brazilian Portuguese usage.
https://www.behindthename.com/name/diane/top/brazil
In 2018, 55 is the most common age for an American (U.S.) Diane who is registered female with the Social Security Administration. It is the 101st most common female first name for living U.S. citizens.
The name Diane was given to 92 girls born in the US in 2015.
This name is also used in The Netherlands, where it is a fairly rare name. The name was at its most popular there between 1969 and 1979 (with the highest number being 102 births in 1972), after which the name slowly decreased in popularity. In at least the past 6 years, there were less than 10 little Dianes born each year.The Dutch pronunciation of the name is: dee-AH-nə.
For some reason, every Diane I know is Asian. Now I can't even imagine a non-Asian named Diane.

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