Baby name
FADING
🇦🇷 🇧🇷 Daiana
/dah · ee · AH · nah/
Meaning
“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.
Nicknames
dai
Vibe
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.