Entry № 2501 · Latin origin

Diana Diana — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ die-AN-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Latin
Meaning
"Divine, heavenly"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Latin)

A name that means "divine, heavenly".

Diana is the name of the Roman goddess of the hunt, the moon, and wild nature — the Roman counterpart to the Greek Artemis. The name derives from the Proto-Indo-European root dyew, meaning "bright" or "sky," the same root that gives "day" and "divine."

It remains in continuous use across the West. Today Diana sits in the U.S. top 200.

The name remembers a princess.

The name in its native script.

Diana
Transliteration
Diana
Pronunciation
/ daɪˈæn.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Diana stands.

Diana 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.

Dianas before her.

Real people
Diana, Princess of Wales
First wife of King Charles III.
1961 – 1997
Diana Ross
American singer.
born 1944
In fiction
Wonder Woman (Diana Prince)
DC Comics superhero, Amazonian princess.
1941 comics
Diana Barry
Anne's best friend in Anne of Green Gables.
1908 novel

Names connected to Diana.

The number behind Diana.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Diana reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.