Dio
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: Initialism of Defence Intelligence Organisation, an Australian government intelligence agency
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/dajəw/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Dio is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- HNHonduras≈1 in 7.4Kas Dios(inferred from the name graph)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 9.2Kas Dios
- DODominican Republic≈1 in 13Kas Dios
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 Dio 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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 220 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 17K (inferred from the name graph)
≈12,000 named Dios, est.
Highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Dios in PE Peru, PH Philippines, ES Spain and 2 more.
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)
Initialism of Defence Intelligence Organisation, an Australian government intelligence agency.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
How Dio is read(measured from records)
Dio is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English37%
Initialism of Defence Intelligence Organisation, an Australian government intelligence agency.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish23%
third-person singular preterite indicative of dar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- French8.9%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Dio in French.
- Indonesian8.0%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Dio in Indonesian.
- Italian7.0%
god, deity
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
não o nome de Deus; redução popular de nomes como Taddio e Amadio
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Dio, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Dio 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | #894 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 9.2K | — | Dios | 67 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈3,600 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Dio | 31 |
| ES Spain | #495 | 2,925as Dios | 1 in 17K | 2.9K | Dios | 144 |
| PE Peru | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Dios | 70 |
| HN Honduras | #348 | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 7.4K | — | Dios | 15 |
| DO Dominican Republic | #431 | ≈810 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Dios | 30 |
| BE Belgium | — | 22 | 1 in 533K | 22 | Dio | 9 |
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); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)
Dio is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Basque, Third-person singular (hark), taking third-person singular (hari) as indirect object and third-person singular (hura) as direct object, present indicative form of izan.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of dius
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)
- Louis Diob. 1908FRFrench military personnel (1908-1994)
- Karine Diob. 1988FRbadminton 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)
Attested in 44 sources across 24 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 22 | #44,654 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 11 | #114,632 |
Reference works 1
- 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 Dio mean, and where does it come from?
- Initialism of Defence Intelligence Organisation, an Australian government intelligence agency. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Dio?
- A machine transcription gives /dajəw/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Dio have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 12 thousand people named Dios in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Dio?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 22 people named Dio in 2008, about 1 in 533 thousand residents.
- How common is Dio compared with other names?
- In the Philippines, Dio is the 894th most common surname of 876,464 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Dio?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/dioThe 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, “Dio” — the 894th most common surname in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.