Diez
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Apokopierte Schreibung zu Die(t)ze; demonstriert Auslaut-Varianz tz/z
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 21 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/djeθ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Diez is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country, where it is the 73rd most common surname.
- ESSpain1 in 836(measured from records)
- UYUruguay1 in 2.9K
- ARArgentina1 in 3.9K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Diez itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Spain (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 271 (measured from records)
- 1 in 836 (inferred from the name graph)
59,840 people
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)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)Apokopierte Schreibung zu Die(t)ze; demonstriert Auslaut-Varianz tz/z. Bearer count: 875.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Diez 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | #73 | 59,840 | 1 in 836 | 60K | Diez | 209 |
| US United States | — | 18,720as Dietz | 1 in 18K | 19K | Diez | 271 |
| AR Argentina | #361 | 11,529 | 1 in 3.9K | 12K | Diez | 115 |
| PH Philippines | #853 | ≈8,700 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Diez | 66 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈4,400 est. | ≈1 in 60K | — | Diez | 17 |
| UY Uruguay | #437 | 1,160 | 1 in 2.9K | 1.2K | Diez | 42 |
| LA Laos | #642 | ≈800 est. | ≈1 in 9.3K | — | Diez | 4 |
59,840 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)Diez is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latvian, Use to add uncertainty to a statement
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, sharp (symbol)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, DIÉZ, diezi, s. m. Semn muzical convențional pus înaintea unei note sau la începutul portativului, care arată că nota respectivă trebuie executată cu un semiton mai sus; p. ext. interval de un semiton cu care se ridică o notă sau un șir de note. ♦ (Adjectival; despre note) Ridicat cu un semiton. [Pr.: di-ez].
as a wordDEX online (dexonline.ro) - DEX '96 / DEX '98 definitions with etymology
In Croatian, njemački filolog, romanist, utemeljitelj poredbene romanistike
as a wordHrvatski jezični portal (HJP) dictionary export
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)- Friedrich Christian Diezb. 1794DEGerman philologist (1794–1876)
- Juan Pablo Duarteb. 1813DOnot in their usual namePresidente y libertador of the Dominican Republic (1813-1876)
- Fritz Diezb. 1901DEGerman actor (1901-1979)
- Karlheinz Diezb. 1954DEGerman priest
- Xebe Diezb. 1955ESSpanish actor
- Nicolás Diezb. 1977ARArgentine footballer
- Carlos Martínezb. 1986ESnot in their usual nameSpanish association football defender (born 1986)
- Álex Menéndezb. 1991ESnot in their usual nameSpanish footballer
- Daniel Jaramillob. 1991COnot in their usual nameColombian bicycle racer
- Steven Diezb. 1991CACanadian tennis 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)Evidence
(measured from records)30 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 60K | #71 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 60K | #71 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 12K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 4.1K | #7,850 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3.5K | #9,293 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3K | #10,066 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 1.2K | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 are other forms of the name Diez?
- In the etymology graph, Decena is a form of the same name in other languages.
- What does the name Diez mean?
- Recorded meaning: Apokopierte Schreibung zu Die(t)ze; demonstriert Auslaut-Varianz tz/z.
- How do you pronounce Diez?
- A machine transcription gives /djeθ/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Diez have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 60 thousand people named Diez, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled diez.
- Where is Diez most common?
- Diez is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 836 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Diez?
- In Spain, the national register counted 59,840 people named Diez, about 1 in 836 residents.
- How common is Diez compared with other names?
- In Spain, Diez is the 73rd most common surname of 395,154 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Diez?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/diezThe 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, “Diez” — the 73rd most common surname in Spain. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.