Diesel
Diesel is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 38 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 380.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 2014156 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 2001
- 2,032people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,032 boys have been named Diesel in the United States since 2001, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2014, with 156 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2014, and the 2010s alone account for 61%.
By decade
In 2014, its biggest year
Diesel was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 2014 were Noah, Liam, Mason, Jacob and William. See all of 2014.
Names that rose and fell with Diesel
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Maksimpeak 2011
- Braylinpeak 2011
- Maddexpeak 2012
- Masynpeak 2012
- Kaidynpeak 2014
- Laydenpeak 2012
- Draydenpeak 2012
- Maddixpeak 2015
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.