Dive
surname · Latin script
Meaning: To swim under water
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/daɪv/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Dive is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- UYUruguay1 in 58K(measured from records)
- BEBelgium1 in 81K
- FRFrance≈1 in 209K
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 Dive 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.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 71 (measured from records)
- 1 in 58K (inferred from the name graph)
≈330 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
To swim under water.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Dive 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 209K | 52 | — | — |
| BD Bangladesh | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Dive | 1 |
| BE Belgium | 145 | 1 in 81K | 145 | — | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈80 est. | ≈1 in 819K | — | Dive | 7 |
| UY Uruguay | 58 | 1 in 58K | 58 | — | — |
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: Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); 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)
Dive 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 English, v., ndombu = lombu
as a wordVocabulary of the Mende Language
In Latin, vocative masculine singular of dīvus
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Czech, vocative singular of div
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Portuguese, inflection of divar:
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)
- Bradshaw Diveb. 1865NZNew Zealand politician
- Percy Diveb. 1881AUcricketer (1881-1965)
- Mollie Diveb. 1913AUcricketer (1913-1997)
- Bruno Diveb. 1960FRFrench journalist
- Julien Diveb. 1985FRFrench politician
- Caroline Diveb. 2000GBProfessor of Cancer Pharmacology
- Daniel G. Divebotanist
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 14 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 145 | #11,336 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 58 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 58 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 54 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 53 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 52 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 48 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 47 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 43 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 40 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 34 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 34 | — |
Reference works 2
- 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 does the name Dive mean, and where does it come from?
- To swim under water. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Dive?
- A machine transcription gives /daɪv/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Dive have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 325 people named Dive in France, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Dive most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Dive is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 58 thousand people — even though France holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Dive?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 145 people named Dive in 2008, about 1 in 81 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/diveThe 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, “Dive”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.