Diala
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Land owner
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 27 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/djala/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Diala is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Jordan than in any other country.
- LBLebanon≈1 in 2.7Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- JOJordan≈1 in 3.1Kfew records
- SYSyria≈1 in 8.4K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Jordan (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 115 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,700 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Lebanon, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Land owner.
Cited for this meaning 1
- The African book of names
Where in the world
(measured from records)Diala 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JO Jordan | ≈3,700 est. | ≈1 in 3.1K | — | Diala | 38 |
| SY Syria | ≈2,900 est. | ≈1 in 8.4K | 1 | Diala | 20 |
| LB Lebanon | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 2.7K | — | Diala | 24 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 151K | listed | Diala | 37 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 29K | — | Diala | 26 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | ≈430 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Diala | 42 |
| US United States | 390 | 1 in 853K | 382 | Diala | 115 |
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: Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex. 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)Diala is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In kw, to avenge, take revenge
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In lua, place for throwing rubbish, dunghill.
as a wordGrammar and Dictionary of the Buluba-Lulua Language
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.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Blessing Dialab. 1989NGNigerian association football player
- Dennis Dialab. 2003DEGerman basketball player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)43 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 27 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Diala mean, and where does it come from?
- Land owner. Recorded by The African book of names.
- How do you pronounce Diala?
- In Spanish /djala/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Diala a male or female name?
- Diala is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020) and Brazil (Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)).
- Which countries have the most people named Diala?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.7 thousand people named Diala in Jordan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled diala. After it come Syria, Lebanon, Nigeria and Saudi Arabia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Diala?
- In the United States, the national register counted 390 people named Diala in 2020, about 1 in 853 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Diala?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/dialaThe 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, “Diala”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.