Diana (name)
Diana or Diane is a feminine given name probably derived from an Indo-European root word referring to the divine. It is the name of the Roman goddess Diana, the goddess of the hunt, forests, and childbirth.[1] The French form of the name is Diane. In Persian Diana means "supplier (messenger) of beneficence and wellness".[2] Diana has consistently ranked among the top 200 names used for girls born in the United States since the 1930s. It was the 107th most popular name for baby girls born in the United States in 2007. It was the 96th most common name for girls and women in the United States in the 1990 census. Diana ranks among the 100 most popular names for baby girls born in Hungary, Spain, and Ukraine, where it was among the top 10 most popular names for baby girls born in 2008.[3][4] It is also a town and commune in North-Eastern Algeria.[5]
 Diana was the Roman goddess of the Hunt. | |
| Gender | female |
|---|---|
| Origin | |
| Word/name | mythological |
| Meaning | heavenly, divine |
| Other names | |
| Related names | Diane, Dianna |
It may refer to:
People
- Diana, Princess of Wales, first wife of Charles, Prince of Wales
- Diana, Brazilian singer
- Diana Álvares Pereira de Melo, 11th Duchess of Cadaval, Portuguese noblewoman
- Dianna Agron, actress
- Diana Athill, British literary editor, novelist and memoirist
- Diana Beck, English neurosurgeon
- Diana Braithwaite, Canadian singer-songwriter
- Diana Bulimar, Romanian gymnast
- Diana Chalá, Ecuadorian judoka
- Diana Chelaru, Romanian gymnast
- Diana Churchill, daughter of Sir Winston Churchill
- Diana Damrau, operatic soprano
- Diana Davies (athlete), British high jumper
- Diana Davies (actress), British actress
- Diana DeGarmo, American singer and Broadway actress
- Diana degli Andalò, 13th-century Dominican–Italian nun and convent superior beatified by the Roman Catholic Church
- Diana Dimova (born 1984), Bulgarian badminton player
- Diana Dors, English actress
- Diana Haddad, Lebanese pop singer
- Diana Hajiyeva, Azerbaijani singer/songwriter
- Diana Hayden, Miss World 1997 from India.
- Diana Hoddinott, British actress
- Diana Ibrahim, Lebanese actress and voice actress
- Diana Iovanovici Șoșoacă, Romanian lawyer and politician
- Diana Jones, American singer-songwriter
- Diana Karazon, Arab singer
- Diana King, Jamaican singer
- Diana Körner, German actress
- Diana Kovacheva, Bulgarian lawyer and politician
- Diana Krall, Canadian jazz pianist and singer
- Diana Kurien, Indian actress
- Diana Lie, alias of Iranian-Norwegian model Aylar Lie
- Diana MacManus, American backstroke swimmer
- Diana Matheson, Canadian football midfielder
- Diana Meier, US basketball player, and actress
- Diana Mitford, English writer, fascist, one of the Mitford sisters
- Diana Muldaur, American television and film actress
- Diana Nyad, American author, journalist, motivational speaker and long-distance swimmer
- Diana Pickler, American heptathlete
- Diana Pineda, Colombian diver
- Diane de Poitiers, French aristocrat
- Diana Redhouse, British artist
- Diana Rigg, English actress
- Diana Ross, American singer and actress
- Diana Russell, Duchess of Bedford
- Diana Šatkauskaitė, Lithuanian handballer
- Diana Sowle, American actress
- Diana Staehly, German actress
- Diana Starkova, French beauty queen, Miss Europe 2016
- Diana Taurasi, Russian-American basketball player
- Diana Torrieri, Italian actress
- Diana Vaisman, Belarusian-born Israeli sprinter
- Diana Vickers, English singer
- Diana Vishneva, Russian ballerina
- Diana Vreeland, American fashion editor of Harper's Bazaar and editor-in-chief of Vogue
- Diana Williams, American journalist for Eyewitness News in New York City
- Diana Yukawa, violinist and composer
Fictional people
- Diana Burnwood, a character in Hitman
- Diana (Dyosa), a character in Dyosa
- Diana Wrayburn, a character from The Shadowhunter Chronicles by Cassandra Clare
- Diana (MÄR), a major antagonist in the manga and anime series MÄR
- Diana (Sailor Moon), a fictional cat character in the Japanese anime and manga series Sailor Moon
- Diana (V TV series), the main antagonist in the 1980s science fiction TV franchise V
- Diana A, fictional mecha, Mazinger Z sidekick, after the demise of Aphrodite A
- Diana Barry, a character in L. M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables
- Diana Bishop, the central character of A Discovery of Witches
- Diana Lombard, one of the main characters in the French-Canadian animated series Martin Mystery
- Diana Prince, the secret identity of the DC Comics superhero Wonder Woman
- Diana, Scorn of the Moon, a playable champion character in the multiplayer online battle arena video game League of Legends
- Diana the Acrobat, from the Dungeons & Dragons animated series
- Diana Cavendish, one of the main characters in the anime series Little Witch Academia
See also
- Diana (disambiguation)
- Diane (disambiguation)
- Jana (given name)
- Anna (given name)
- All pages with titles beginning with Diana
Notes
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