Dîâb
surname · Latin script
Dîâb is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Egypt than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Christian/Muslim/Arabic surname, probably from ذئب (“wolf”), or Old Norse Deyja'b ("Rare Death").
- EGEgypt≈1 in 3.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- LBLebanon≈1 in 3.3K
- SYSyria≈1 in 3.3K
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.
- Egypt (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 214 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈33,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Egypt, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Diab in EG Egypt, US United States, SY Syria and 5 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)
Christian/Muslim/Arabic surname, probably from ذئب (“wolf”), or Old Norse Deyja'b ("Rare Death").
Sources 1
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Dîâb 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EG Egypt | #178 | ≈33,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.2K | — | Diab | 116 |
| SY Syria | #159 | ≈5,800 est. | ≈1 in 3.3K | — | Diab | 43 |
| JO Jordan | #884 | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 4K | — | Diab | 65 |
| DZ Algeria | — | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 20K | listed | Diab | 28 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Diab | 59 |
| LB Lebanon | #191 | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 3.3K | — | Diab | 67 |
| IL Israel | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 5.5K | — | Diab | 50 |
| US United States | — | 1,400 | 1 in 238K | 1.8K | Diab | 214 |
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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Dîâb mean, and where does it come from?
- Christian/Muslim/Arabic surname, probably from ذئب (“wolf”), or Old Norse Deyja'b ("Rare Death"). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Dîâb have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 33 thousand people named Dîâb in Egypt, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled diab.
- How common is the name Dîâb?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,400 people named Dîâb in 2010, about 1 in 238 thousand residents.
- How common is Dîâb compared with other names?
- In Egypt, Dîâb is the 178th most common surname of 306,210 surnames recorded there.
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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, “Dîâb” — the 178th most common surname in Egypt. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.