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Diamond

Girl name · 6 babies recorded · 1974–2025

Diamond: 6 babies born in Scotland since 1974, given to girls, peaking at 3 births in 2008.

Diamond is an English word name taken directly from the precious gemstone, which itself derives from the Greek *adamas* meaning “unconquerable” or “invincible” – a reference to the stone’s legendary hardness. While not historically common as a given name, it gained modern visibility through figures such as American professional wrestler Diamond Dallas Page, and the name appears in literature as a character in Charles Dickens’s *The Old Curiosity Shop*. There is no direct place connection via a famous bearer, though the word shares its root with the metal adamantium. One further note: Diamond is a genuinely unisex name in Scotland, though it has been used more frequently for girls since the 1990s, and it also survives as a distinctive surname.