Diem
- Gender
- Mostly girls
- Say it
- YEEM
- Origin
- Vietnamese
- US rank, 2025
- #11,928 for girls
Diem is a name of Vietnamese origin, meaning “beautiful, charming”. In 2025 it ranked 11,928th for girls in the US (7 babies).
What does Diem mean?
Vietnamese: Vietnamese Diễm, Sino-Vietnamese word
“beautiful, charming”
Is Diem a girl's or a boy's name?
In recent years, Diem has been given to girls and boys, mostly girls. In 2025, it was given to 7 girls in the US.
How popular is Diem in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 11,928th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 7 about 1 in 230,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Falling fast down 64% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 7 girls in the US were named Diem, making it the 11,928th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,755th. Its busiest year was 2012, with 57 girls. It first appears in the records in 1980.
Half of all the girls named Diem in the US since 1880 were born between 2000 and 2017, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2021, 77% of the babies named Diem in the US were girls.
Diem in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #11,928 |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,247 |
| 2023 | 6 | #13,456 |
| 2022 | 23 | #5,462 |
| 2021 | 23 | #5,394 |
| 2020 | 27 | #4,755 |
| 2019 | 28 | #4,772 |
| 2018 | 23 | #5,450 |
| 2017 | 46 | #3,386 |
| 2016 | 55 | #3,010 |
| 2015 | 51 | #3,211 |
| 2014 | 25 | #5,308 |
| 2013 | 42 | #3,643 |
| 2012 | 57 | #2,977 |
| 2011 | 11 | #9,719 |
| 2010 | 24 | #5,600 |
| 2009 | 18 | #7,063 |
| 2008 | 25 | #5,571 |
| 2007 | 21 | #6,319 |
| 2006 | 9 | #11,412 |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 7 | #11,794 |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 0 | – |
| 1995 | 0 | – |
| 1994 | 0 | – |
| 1993 | 16 | #5,667 |
| 1992 | 11 | #7,504 |
| 1991 | 14 | #6,247 |
| 1990 | 10 | #7,874 |
| 1989 | 8 | #8,755 |
| 1988 | 10 | #7,106 |
| 1987 | 6 | #9,820 |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,130 |
| 1985 | 15 | #4,858 |
| 1984 | 20 | #3,873 |
| 1983 | 24 | #3,339 |
| 1982 | 14 | #4,943 |
| 1981 | 11 | #5,884 |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,093 |
Names like Diem
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Dream, Quinn, Blake, Harper, Isla, Paisley, Demi, Elle, Delilah, Drew, Leighton, Oakley
Names related to Diem
More Vietnamese names
An, Minh, Anh, Vy, Khoi, Khang, Ngoc, Can, Nhi, Nam, Thang, Khoa, Vinh, Phuong, Nguyen, Liem
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Diem: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/diem, updated 20 October 2026.