Baby name

FADING GIRL · LATIN-SPANISH
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Daiana

/dah · ee · AH · nah/


“Divine huntress”

Spanish and Portuguese phonetic variant of Diana, from the Latin deity name Diana, goddess of the hunt and the moon; the phonetic respelling reflects the pronunciation used in Latin America.

dai

warm

How it ages.

The phonetic spelling dates it to late-20th century Latin American naming trends; Diana ages better.

The cultural moment.

Common in Argentina and Brazil in the 1980s-1990s; declining in new births since 2000.