Didi
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A respectful term of address to any familiar older female (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
Used for both men and women, depending on the country· national registers that list names by sex disagree
- Netherlands (Meertens NVB): listed as female
- United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed as female
- Brazil (Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)): listed under both sexes
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 29 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/dˈidi/(machine-generated) Indonesian · model-generated
Didi is a given name used for both men and women, depending on the country, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country.
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 3.7K(inferred from the name graph)
- CICôte d’Ivoire≈1 in 5.7K
- ATAustria≈1 in 7.4Kfew records
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.
- Indonesia (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 252 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈77,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Indonesia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Didi
- Indonesian:/dˈidi/(machine-generated) model-generated
- Spanish:/ðidi/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)A respectful term of address to any familiar older female.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Didi 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ID Indonesia | #304 | ≈77,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.7K | listed | Didi | 161 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | — | ≈5,600 est. | ≈1 in 5.7K | 419 | — | 2 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈3,600 est. | ≈1 in 65K | — | Didi | 30 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 38K | — | Didi | 29 |
| IN India | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 945K | 22 | Didi | 18 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 7.4K | — | Didi | 28 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 761 | 1 in 23K | 729 | Didi | 40 |
| CH Switzerland | — | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 21K | 37 | Didi | 18 |
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: Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)Didi is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
silly (Berber); rabbi of Tunis
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
In Akan, red.v. (s. di) i. to eat; to be or sit at meals, at table
as a wordDictionary of the Asante and Fante Language called Tshi (Chwee, Twi)
In kmk, there (far from both the speaker and the listener)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In aia, wall of a house; make a wall or partition
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Latin, present passive infinitive of dīdō
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)- Didi Connb. 1951USAmerican actress (born 1951)
- Didi Benamib. 1986USAmerican singer
- Didi Gregoriusb. 1990NLCuraçaoan-Dutch baseball player (born 1990)
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)51 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 29 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Didi mean, and where does it come from?
- A respectful term of address to any familiar older female. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Didi?
- In the etymology graph, it is recorded as a short form of Dieter.
- How do you pronounce Didi?
- It depends on the language: in Indonesian /dˈidi/; in Spanish /ðidi/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Didi a male or female name?
- Didi is used for both men and women, depending on the country. National registers that list names by sex disagree: Netherlands (Meertens NVB): listed as female; United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed as female; Brazil (Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)): listed under both sexes. We don't publish a percentage split.
- Which countries have the most people named Didi?
- Mondonomo estimates about 77 thousand people named Didi in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled didi. After it come Côte d’Ivoire, Nigeria, South Africa and India; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Didi?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 761 people named Didi, about 1 in 23 thousand residents.
- How common is Didi compared with other names?
- In Indonesia, Didi is the 304th most common given name of 270,909 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/didiThe 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, “Didi” — the 304th most common given name in Indonesia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.