Dieu

given name · Latin script

Meaning: a god, male divinity

Used for both men and women· registers list it under both sexes; no split published

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 24 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020

/djø/(recorded in a dictionary) French · from Wiktionary

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Dieu 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. In Congo - Kinshasa it is the 7th most common given name.

  • FIFinland1 in 164K(measured from records)
  • ISIceland1 in 175K
  • DKDenmark1 in 326K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

1,701 people, 2020

Record sources
236 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 72K (inferred from the name graph)

Sweden

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin

(measured from records)

a god, male divinity

Cited for this meaning 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Dieu 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.

Where Dieu is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—1,7011 in 196K1.1KDieu112
SE Sweden—1421 in 72K142Dieu5
NL Netherlands—441 in 393K28—6
CM Cameroon#638≈40 est.≈1 in 699K—Dieu15
FI Finland—341 in 164K117—1
DK Denmark—181 in 326K238——
IS Iceland—21 in 175K2——
CD Congo - Kinshasa#7———Dieu27

1,701 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; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); 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 names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Dieu is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate given name18 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Malaysia, China

    Also written Diệu, Diêu, Diêų, Diẹu, Diêụ

  • English given name17 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Australia, United Kingdom, Germany

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Diệu, Diêu, Dįęú, Dîëū, Dïeu

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Diệu, Diêu

  • Spanish given name8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, El Salvador, Chile, Congo - Kinshasa

    Also written Diệu, Dįęü, Diëu, Diêụ, Diễu

  • Swahili given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Congo - Kinshasa, Rwanda, United States, South Africa

    Languages: Swahili, Kinyarwanda

    Also written Diệu

  • Danish given name13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark, United States, Sweden

    Languages: Danish, Swedish, Norwegian

    Also written Diêu, Dīëû, Diệu, Dïęü, Dïêu

52 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses

(measured from records)

Dieu 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 enm, alternative form of dewe (“due”)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Catalan, second-person plural present indicative of dir

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Sundanese, here

    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)
16001700180019002000Antoine Dieu, b. 1662Hippolyte Dieu, b. 1812Ernest Dieu, b. 1842Marcel Dieu, b. 1902Daniel Dieu, b. 1956Bruno Dieu, b. 1962Marie-Caroline Dieu-Nosjean, b. 1971Nade Dieu, b. 1973Romane Dieu, b. 2000

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)
InformalChào chị Dieu,Hi Dieu, (English)

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)

41 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 24 countries.

Official registers attesting Dieu
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020902#28,173
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010805#29,366
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000584#36,232
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—238#2,057
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—7#47,867
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 4

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)

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 Dieu mean, and where does it come from?
a god, male divinity Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Dieu?
In French /djø/ (Wiktionary).
How common is the name Dieu?
In the United States, the national register counted 1,701 people named Dieu in 2020, about 1 in 196 thousand residents.
How common is Dieu compared with other names?
In Congo - Kinshasa, Dieu is the 7th most common given name of 20,652 given names recorded there.
Is Dieu a male or female name?
Dieu is used for both men and women. National registers that list it by sex count it under both: United States (Census Bureau, 2020) and Finland (DVV). We don't publish a percentage split.
In which country does Dieu have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 1.7 thousand people named Dieu, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dieu.
Where is Dieu most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Dieu is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 72 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.

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The 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, “Dieu” — the 7th most common given name in Congo - Kinshasa. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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