Diep
given name · Latin script
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 18 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/jjɛp˦˥/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Diep is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Vietnamese surname, compare Điệp and Diệp.
- USUnited States1 in 105K(measured from records)
- ISIceland1 in 117K
- FIFinland1 in 328K
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
- 294 (measured from records)
- 1 in 105K (inferred from the name graph)
3,166 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Vietnamese surname, compare Điệp and Diệp.
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Diep 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 3,166 | 1 in 105K | 6.7K | Diep | 294 |
| FI Finland | 17 | 1 in 328K | 68 | — | 1 |
| DK Denmark | 13 | 1 in 451K | 51 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | 11 | 1 in 1.6M | 42 | Diep | 8 |
| PL Poland | 11 | 1 in 3.5M | 8 | — | 1 |
| CZ Czechia | 8 | 1 in 1.3M | 8 | — | — |
| IS Iceland | 3 | 1 in 117K | 3 | — | — |
3,166 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); MVČR — living population register 2017; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)Diep is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Afrikaans, deep, down low
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)- Bùi Mộng Điệpb. 1924VNnot in their usual name(1924-2011)
- Phong Điệpb. 1976VNnot in their usual nameVietnamese writer and journalist (1976-)
- Nguyễn Hoàng Điệpb. 1982VNnot in their usual nameVietnamese filmmaker (born 1982)
- Vu Hoang Diepb. 1987INVietnamese beauty contest winner
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)35 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 6.7K | #5,038 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 6.2K | #5,636 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 4.8K | #6,489 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 51 | #10,429 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 43 | #25,855 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 42 | #34,497 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 4 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 4 | #218,162 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Diep mean, and where does it come from?
- Vietnamese surname, compare Điệp and Diệp. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Diep?
- A machine transcription gives /jjɛp˦˥/ (IPA) for Vietnamese.
- Is Diep a male or female name?
- Diep is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- In which country does Diep have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 3.2 thousand people named Diep, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled diep.
- Where is Diep most common?
- Diep is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 105 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Diep?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,166 people named Diep in 2020, about 1 in 105 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/diepThe 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, “Diep”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.