دي
surname · Arabic script
Meaning: feminine of ده
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
دي is a surname written in the Arabic script, with more bearers in Egypt than in any other country.
- EGEgypt≈1 in 3.8K(inferred from the name graph)
- LBLebanon≈1 in 38K
- IQIraq≈1 in 50K
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Egypt (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 16 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈28,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Egypt, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
feminine of ده
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
دي 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.
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.
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)
دي is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In mxi, alternative spelling of دیه (dyh, “day”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Afrikaans, Arabic spelling of die.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Malay, Jawi spelling of dia.
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)
- William McEntyre Dyeb. 1831USnot in their usual nameAmerican general (1831-1899)
- Babe Dyeb. 1898CAnot in their usual nameCanadian ice hockey player (1898-1962)
- Pete Dyeb. 1925USnot in their usual nameGolf course architect, amateur golfer (1925–2020)
- Brad Dyeb. 1933USnot in their usual nameAmerican politician (1933-2018)
- Gianni Deib. 1940ITnot in their usual nameItalian actor (1940–2020)
- Dale Dyeb. 1944USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor, presenter, and businessman
- Cameron Dyeb. 1959USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor
- John Dyeb. 1963USnot in their usual nameAmerican film and television actor (1963–2011)
- Jermaine Dyeb. 1974USnot in their usual nameAmerican baseball player
- Jeff Dyeb. 1983USnot in their usual nameAmerican stand-up comedian
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name دي mean, and where does it come from?
- feminine of ده Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does دي have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 28 thousand people named دي in Egypt, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled دي.
- How common is the name دي?
- Mondonomo estimates about 28,000 people in Egypt have دي as their first surname, about 1 in 3.8 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
- How common is دي compared with other names?
- In Egypt, دي is the 121st most common surname of 306,210 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about دي?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%D8%AF%D9%8AThe 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, “دي” — the 121st most common surname in Egypt. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.