Dían
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Dían is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Malay dian, from Classical Malay dian, from Javanese ꦢꦶꦪꦤ꧀ (diyan, “lamp, lantern”).
- USUnited States1 in 56K(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 252K
- GYGuyana1 in 5.1K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 134 (measured from records)
- 1 in 5.1K (inferred from the name graph)
5,975 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Dian in US United States, BR Brazil.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)- Malaydian(measured from records)
- Classical Malaydian(measured from records)
- Javaneseꦢꦶꦪꦤ꧀diyan“lamp, lantern”(measured from records)
From Malay dian, from Classical Malay dian, from Javanese ꦢꦶꦪꦤ꧀ (diyan, “lamp, lantern”).
Cited for this meaning 5
- Dizionario dei cognomi italiani
- Wiktionary
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
- Nordic Names
- Schuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007)
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Dían counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
5,975 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Dían is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In sga, swift, rapid, quick
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In bnt-pro, play
as a wordBantu Lexical Reconstructions 3 (BLR3), Tervuren 2002/2003
In bnt-pro, jouer
as a wordBantu Lexical Reconstructions 3 (BLR3), Tervuren 2002/2003
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Dían mean, and where does it come from?
- From Malay dian, from Classical Malay dian, from Javanese ꦢꦶꦪꦤ꧀ (diyan, “lamp, lantern”). Recorded by Dizionario dei cognomi italiani and Wiktionary and 3 other sources.
- Is Dían a male or female name?
- Dían is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Dían have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 6.0 thousand people named Dían, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dian.
- Where is Dían most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Dían is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 5.1 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Dían?
- In the United States, the national register counted 5,975 people named Dían in 2020, about 1 in 56 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/d%C3%ADanThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Dían”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.