A variant of Diana, the Roman goddess of the moon and hunt, possibly from Latin 'diviana' meaning 'divine'.
Dyanna is a variant spelling of Diana, one of the most storied names in Western civilization. Diana was the Roman goddess of the hunt, the moon, and the wilderness — a deity of wild, untamed spaces and the silver light that governs them. Her Greek equivalent was Artemis, twin sister of Apollo, and together they represented the twin pillars of lunar and solar power.
The name's Latin roots likely connect to "divus" (divine) and the Indo-European root meaning "sky" or "bright," placing Diana among the oldest stratum of sacred names in European tradition. Through history the name has belonged to queens, saints, and cultural icons. Diana of Poitiers, the brilliant and influential mistress of King Henri II of France, made the name synonymous with wit, beauty, and political acumen in the sixteenth century.
Diana, Princess of Wales, gave the name a twentieth-century resonance of compassionate public service and global celebrity. M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables — warm, loyal, and steadfast — while Diana in Shakespeare's All's Well That Ends Well represents chastity and virtue.
The Dyanna spelling, with its distinctive "y," emerged as a personalizing variant in twentieth-century America, part of a long tradition of creatively respelling classical names to mark individual identity while preserving phonetic beauty. It carries all the mythological grandeur of Diana — moon goddess, huntress, protector of children and nature — wrapped in a form that feels both familiar and distinctly one's own. It is a name that carries ancient starlight.