Dil
given name · Latin script
Meaning: From OE *Dulla, *Dylli or *Dylla; first attested Godwin Dul 1185 P (Ha)
Used for both men and women, depending on the country· national registers that list names by sex disagree
- India (India Names Dataset): listed as female
- United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed under both sexes
- Brazil (Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)): listed as male
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 23 countries
Dil is a given name used for both men and women, depending on the country, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nepal than in any other country.
- NPNepal≈1 in 540few records(inferred from the name graph)
- PKPakistan≈1 in 7.5K
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 32Kfew records
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 Dil itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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.
- Nepal (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 94 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 540 (inferred from the name graph)
≈56,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Nepal, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)From OE *Dulla, *Dylli or *Dylla; first attested Godwin Dul 1185 P (Ha).
Cited for this meaning 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Dil 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NP Nepal | — | ≈56,000 est. | ≈1 in 540 | — | Dil | 54 |
| PK Pakistan | #456 | ≈31,000 est. | ≈1 in 7.5K | listed | Dil | 53 |
| LK Sri Lanka | — | ≈3,800 est. | ≈1 in 6.1K | — | Dil | 7 |
| AF Afghanistan | — | ≈3,400 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Dil | 4 |
| US United States | — | 1,305as Dal | 1 in 255K | 1.2K | Dil | 94 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 32K | — | Dil | 14 |
| BR Brazil | — | 101 | 1 in 2.1M | 30K | — | — |
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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); 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)Dil 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.
In German, viell. zu ahd. tilen 'zerstören'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In io, contraction of di la (“of the”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In csb, dill (herb of the species Anethum graveolens)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Albanian, second-person singular imperative of dal
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
ISO 639-3 language code for Dilling.
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)- Dil Wickremasingheb. 1970ITItalian journalist
- Dil Hildebrandb. 1974CACanadian; artist (born 1974)
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)38 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 23 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 455 | #18,544 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- 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)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)
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 Dil mean, and where does it come from?
- From OE *Dulla, *Dylli or *Dylla; first attested Godwin Dul 1185 P (Ha). Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- Is Dil a male or female name?
- Dil is used for both men and women, depending on the country. National registers that list names by sex disagree: India (India Names Dataset): listed as female; United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed under both sexes; Brazil (Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)): listed as male. We don't publish a percentage split.
- In which country does Dil have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 56 thousand people named Dil in Nepal, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dil.
- How common is the name Dil?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 101 people named Dil in 2022, about 1 in 2.1 million residents.
- How common is Dil compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Dil is the 456th most common given name of 77,659 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/dilThe 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, “Dil” — the 456th most common given name in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.