Diana Spencer, Princess of Wales, mother of the future King of England, was born on July 1, 1961. Despite Princess Diana’s beauty and fame, her mythological name — the Roman goddess Diana is associated with the moon and hunting — never caught on the way the names of other influential celebrities have.
Instead, the name Diana has held fairly steady for 35 years now, dropping out of the US Top 100 in 1991 and ranking today and #243. But while it’s not wildly popular in the US or the UK, Diana does rank in the Top 100 in a wide range of countries, from Poland to Portugal, Mexico to Switzerland to Ukraine.
