Dim
org · Latin script
Meaning: Not bright or colorful
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/dɪm/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Dim is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- GRGreece≈1 in 27K(inferred from the name graph)
- RURussia≈1 in 56Kas Дим
- BYBelarus≈1 in 74K
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 Dim 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 142 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 27K (inferred from the name graph)
3,345 named Diem, 2020
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Greece, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Дим in RU Russia, BY Belarus, CN China and Δημ in GR Greece.
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)
Not bright or colorful.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Dim 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 | 3,345as Diem | 1 in 99K | 3K | Dim | 142 |
| RU Russia | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 56K | #653 | Дим | 113 |
| CN China | ≈960 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | — | Дим | 3 |
| FR France | ≈720 est. | ≈1 in 94K | 22 | — | 4 |
| GR Greece | ≈390 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Δημ | 49 |
| NL Netherlands | 146 | 1 in 118K | 146 | — | 18 |
| BY Belarus | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 74K | — | Дим | 8 |
3,345 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020, counting the spelling diem. 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; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)
Dim 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 Russian, "darkness."
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
In Latvian, third-person singular/plural present indicative of dimēt
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Galician, third-person plural present indicative of dizer
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
ISO 639-3 language code for Dime.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Scottish Gaelic, Tue (Tuesday)
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)
- Thomas Dimb. 1964ATAustrian politician
- Dušan Dimb. 1972SISlovenian children's writer
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)
Attested in 38 sources across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 962 | #26,682 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 344 | #58,876 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 170 | #98,770 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 26 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 16 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 13 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 11 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 10 | — |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 6 | #73,841 |
| 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
- 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
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 Dim mean, and where does it come from?
- Not bright or colorful. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Dim?
- A machine transcription gives /dɪm/ (IPA) for Ukrainian.
- In which country does Dim have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 3.3 thousand people named Diem, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Dim?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 146 people named Dim, about 1 in 118 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Dim?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/dimThe 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, “Dim”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.