Diola
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Alternative form of Jola
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/dɪoʊɫə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Diola is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 12K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States≈1 in 2.7M
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 70K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 87 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
≈9,100 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Alternative form of Jola.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Diola 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 | #758 | ≈9,100 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Diola | 66 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈3,800 est. | ≈1 in 70K | — | Diola | 24 |
| US United States | — | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 2.7M | listed | Diola | 87 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈68 est. | ≈1 in 3.2M | — | Diola | 10 |
| BR Brazil | — | 65 | 1 in 3.3M | 65 | Diola | 19 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈27 est. | ≈1 in 959K | — | Diola | 22 |
| CY Cyprus | — | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 182K | — | Diola | 5 |
| AL Albania | — | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 622K | 74 | — | — |
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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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)
Diola is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Galician, gosh
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)
- Orazio Diolab. 1581ITItalian Franciscan friar (-1591)
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 17 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 65 | #86,981 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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 Diola mean, and where does it come from?
- Alternative form of Jola. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Diola?
- A machine transcription gives /dɪoʊɫə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Diola have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 9.1 thousand people named Diola in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled diola.
- How common is the name Diola?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 65 people named Diola, about 1 in 3.3 million residents.
- How common is Diola compared with other names?
- In the Philippines, Diola is the 758th most common surname of 876,464 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Diola?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/diolaThe 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, “Diola” — the 758th most common surname in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.