Diamond is a gemstone name that goes back through Latin to the Greek adamas, which means "unconquerable" or "invincible", the hardest and most prized of stones. It was one of the glamour names of the 1990s together with Destiny and Jewel. In the United States Diamond ranked number 162 in 2000, slipped out of the top 1000 after 2014 and stands at number 2024 in 2025 with 94 births.