Digna
Digna is a name with multiple cultural origins: Spanish, Galician.
- Spanish
- Galician
Meaning & Origin of Digna
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Digna is a name with multiple cultural origins: Spanish, Galician.
Origin data from Behind the Name .
Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- Spanish
- Galician
The Story of Digna
Digna first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a baby girl name in 1950, with 5 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 1996: 24 births, good for #4,306 nationwide. About 25% of every Digna on record arrived during the 1990s, its defining decade. Digna last appeared in the published SSA data in 2024, with 11 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 496 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1950s to the 2020s.
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About the name Digna
Digna is a girl baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1950 and has accumulated 496 births in the dataset. Digna's peak popularity came in 1996 when it ranked #4,306. Use the chart and map above to compare Digna's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
Peek a Name aggregates and presents the above data for informational purposes. Statistical predictions and external attributions are clearly labelled where shown; we make no guarantee of accuracy beyond what each source provides.