Entry № 2499 · English origin

Diahann Diahann — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ DEE-ann /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"Divine (Diahann Carroll, first Black Tony Best Actress in a Musical)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern (English)

A name that means "divine (diahann carroll, first black tony best actress in a musical)".

Diahann is a 20th-century American invention — combining Diane (from Diana, the Roman moon-goddess) + Ann (Hebrew Hannah, "grace"). Oscar nomination for Best Actress for Claudine (1974). Grammy nomination; daytime Emmy.

Subject of her memoir The Legs Are the Last to Go (2008).

Divine (Diahann Carroll, first Black Tony Best Actress in a Musical) — a English name.

The name in its native script.

Diahann
Transliteration
Diahann
Pronunciation
/ ˈdiː.æn /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Diahann stands.

Diahann does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Diahanns before her.

Real people
Diahann Carroll
American actress and singer.
1935 – 2019
In fiction
Julia Baker
Julia.
1968

Names connected to Diahann.

The number behind Diahann.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Diahann reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.