Di
org · Latin script
Meaning, in Italian: used to indicate possession, after the thing owned and before the owner; of; ’s
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Di is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country.
- ARArgentina≈1 in 420(inferred from the name graph)
- BRBrazil≈1 in 14K
- ITItaly≈1 in 625
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.
- Argentina (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 195 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 420 (inferred from the name graph)
≈110,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Argentina, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Dí in US United States, Dï in DO Dominican Republic, Di' in VE Venezuela and Dì in IT Italy.
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)
Sino-Vietnamese: “change, move, transfer”; in the poem dedicated to Kiến An vương, son of Gia Long and brother of Minh Mạng.
Sources 1
- Tên Họ Người Việt Nam
Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.
How Di is read(measured from records)
Di is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 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.
- Italian94%
used to indicate possession, after the thing owned and before the owner; of; ’s
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish44%
first-person singular preterite indicative of dar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Di 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | — | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 420 | 2 | Di | 120 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈100,000 est. | ≈1 in 625 | listed | Dì | 100 |
| BR Brazil | — | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 14K | 153 | Di | 127 |
| VE Venezuela | — | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | — | Di' | 61 |
| UY Uruguay | — | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | — | Di | 52 |
| NL Netherlands | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 12K | 55 | — | 14 |
| US United States | — | 570 | 1 in 584K | 1.7K | Dí | 195 |
| DO Dominican Republic | #620 | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 47K | — | Dï | 24 |
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: IBGE — Nomes (census name API); datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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)
Di 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 Vietnamese, Sino-Vietnamese: “change, move, transfer”; in the poem dedicated to Kiến An vương, son of Gia Long and brother of Minh Mạng.
as a nameTên Họ Người Việt Nam
In Vietnamese, Han-Viet name element; from the naming poem for Quảng Oai công, Gia Long’s 10th son.
as a nameTên Họ Người Việt Nam
Short form of Diana and pDiane.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In och, To look at from the side; askance, glance at
as a wordSchuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007)
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)
- Zhai Zhaob. 350not in their usual nameChinese emperor
- Zhai Liaob. 350not in their usual nameWei emperor
- Di Renjieb. 630CNChinese official
- Di Qingb. 1008CNMilitary General
- Zhai Xiangjunb. 1939CNnot in their usual nameChinese translator and educator
- Wu Dib. 1951CNChinese cinematographer
- Zhai Zhigangb. 1966CNnot in their usual nameChinese astronaut
- Zhang Dib. 1968CNChinese judoka
- Di Zijianb. 2001CNChinese badminton player
- Di ReedUSAmerican singer and actor
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)
Attested in 56 sources across 34 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.7K | #5,700 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.3K | #5,700 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 153 | #29,399 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 55 | #6,303 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 22 | #18,535 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 21 | #14,341 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1999 | 8 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1999 | 7 | — |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 1999 | 2 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 1999 | 2 | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- Where does the name Di come from?
- Sino-Vietnamese: “change, move, transfer”; in the poem dedicated to Kiến An vương, son of Gia Long and brother of Minh Mạng. Recorded by Tên Họ Người Việt Nam.
- What does the name Di mean?
- In Italian, used to indicate possession, after the thing owned and before the owner; of; ’s
- In which country does Di have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 108 thousand people named Di in Argentina, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled di.
- How common is the name Di?
- In the United States, the national register counted 570 people named Di in 2010, about 1 in 584 thousand residents.
- How common is Di compared with other names?
- In the Dominican Republic, Di is the 620th most common surname of 26,844 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Di?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/diThe 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, “Di” — the 620th most common surname in Dominican Republic. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.