Diamond

Used for both boys and girlsStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Diamond: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Diamond: Recorded since 1996, it reached #1,220 in 2013, and it stood at #2,574 in 2024.

1registrar recorded it
43times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#1220highest recorded position
6groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#3795
1997	#3824
1998	#2701
1999	#3900
2001	#3998
2002	#2540
2003	#3099
2004	#2802
2005	#2682
2006	#2781
2007	#1741
2008	#2721
2009	#3422
2010	#1901
2011	#3185
2012	#1893
2013	#1220
2014	#1562
2015	#2195
2016	#2120
2017	#1911
2018	#2901
2019	#2869
2020	#3447
2021	#2201
2022	#2325
2023	#2063
2024	#2574

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in 28 of the 29 years from 1996 to 2024.

Official data for England and Wales, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #3795 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #1220 among girls in England and Wales, in 2013 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #2574 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Diamond appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 28 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 267 births with the name.

Diamond across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Diamond's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#3795 (1996)	#1220 (2013)	#2574 (2024)	28 of 29	267 (1996–2024)	28 (2013)
England and Wales · Boys	#2741 (2007)	#2660 (2013)	#3688 (2024)	15 of 18	67 (2007–2024)	7 (2012)

Diamond by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Diamond in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	14	4 of 10	4
2000s	62	9 of 10	7
2010sbusiest	139	10 of 10	14
2020s	52	5 of 10	10

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 14 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Diamond appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #1220 in England and Wales in 2013.

Diamond's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#2574	10	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#3688	5	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#2063	13	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#4991	3	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#2325	11	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#4789	3	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#2201	12	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#3990	4	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#3447	6	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#2869	8	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#2901	8	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#3959	4	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#1911	15	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#4812	3	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#2120	13	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#4810	3	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#2195	12	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#3373	5	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1562	19	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#3895	4	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1220	28	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#2660	7	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1893	15	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#2721	7	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#3185	7	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#2892	6	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1901	14	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#3865	4	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#3422	6	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#4527	3	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#2721	8	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#1741	14	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#2741	6	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#2781	7	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#2682	7	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#2802	6	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#3099	5	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#2540	6	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#3998	3	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#3900	3	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#2701	5	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#3824	3	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#3795	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 1 registrar between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 28 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #1,220, first reached in 2013.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 28 births, registered in England and Wales in 2013.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

Its record falls into 2 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 1 year.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Dia · #747, 22y
Dian · #2954, 14y
Diana · #66, 74y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 1 registrar, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Alexei · #1222, 29y
Coralie · #1222, 29y
Hadiyah · #1218, 29y
Micky · #1222, 29y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Alexei · #1222, 29y
Coralie · #1222, 29y
Corrin · #1222, 10y
Hadiyah · #1218, 29y

Diamond and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Diamond without appearing here.

Diamond moved ahead of

Kristine Compare
In 2009 they stood at #3422 and #3031 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2010 that had become #1901 and #5707.
Tracy Compare
In 2020 they stood at #3447 and #2449 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #2201 and #5581.
Carol Compare
In 2011 they stood at #3185 and #2893 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #1893 and #4838.
Tracey Compare
In 2011 they stood at #3185 and #2893 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #1893 and #4838.

Moved ahead of Diamond

Conan Compare
In 2008 they stood at #2741 and #3095 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2009 that had become #4527 and #1568.
Rune Compare
In 2020 they stood at #3959 and #4749 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2021 that had become #3990 and #2125.
Matheo Compare
In 2015 they stood at #3373 and #3908 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2016 that had become #4810 and #3079.
Rory Compare
In 2019 they stood at #2869 and #4001 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #3447 and #1939.

Moved the opposite way to Diamond

Kristin Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Diamond went from #3795 to #2063 while Kristin went from #1434 to #5687.
Therese Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Diamond went from #3795 to #2063 while Therese went from #2096 to #4709.
Tracey Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Diamond went from #3795 to #2063 while Tracey went from #783 to #5687.
Carol Compare
Between 1996 and 2021 in England and Wales · Girls, Diamond went from #3795 to #2201 while Carol went from #802 to #3519.

Moved the same way as Diamond

Garry Compare
Between 2007 and 2023 in England and Wales · Boys, Diamond went from #2741 to #4991 and Garry from #2211 to #4991.
Brent Compare
Between 2007 and 2022 in England and Wales · Boys, Diamond went from #2741 to #4789 and Brent from #1756 to #3449.
Ole Compare
Between 2007 and 2022 in England and Wales · Boys, Diamond went from #2741 to #4789 and Ole from #1756 to #4789.
Tor Compare
Between 2007 and 2022 in England and Wales · Boys, Diamond went from #2741 to #4789 and Tor from #2435 to #3449.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #1220 in England and Wales in 2013. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Diamond

Diamond at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Diamond across 2 official records

Diamond by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Diamond appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Diamond and the names beside it

Diamond moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Diamond

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Diamond at a glance

Diamond across 2 official records

Diamond by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Diamond appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Diamond and the names beside it

Diamond moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Diamond

Moved the opposite way to Diamond

Moved the same way as Diamond