Diêm

given name · Latin script

Meaning: salt

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Diêm is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 99K(measured from records)
  • SESweden1 in 104K
  • FIFinland1 in 124K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

3,345 people, 2020

Sources
108 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 99K (inferred from the name graph)

United States

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Diem in US United States, NL Netherlands.

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)

salt

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Diêm 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.

Where Diêm is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States3,3451 in 99K3KDiem108
NL Netherlands1341 in 129K91Diem12
SE Sweden981 in 104K98—7
FI Finland451 in 124K127—3
DK Denmark221 in 267K22——
IS Iceland21 in 175K2——

3,345 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Diêm is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name17 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Australia, United Kingdom, Germany

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Diem, Diễm, Dièm, Diëm, Diệm

  • Spanish given name13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, El Salvador, Chile, Brazil

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Diem, Diễm, Díem, Diểm, Dįêm

  • Bangla given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Malaysia

    Also written Diem, Diểm, Diễm

  • a separate name5 spellings in the group

    Also written Diễm, Diëm, Diem, Diểm

11 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

0500100015002000Empress Yan Ji, b. 100Yan Liben, b. 600Yan Xishan, b. 1883Yan Chongnian, b. 1934Yan Xuetong, b. 1952Yan Lianke, b. 1958Yan Qingyu, b. 1966Shan Sa, b. 1972Yan Sen, b. 1975Yan Han, b. 1996
  • Empress Yan Jib. 100CNnot in their usual name2nd century Han dynasty empress
  • Yan Libenb. 600not in their usual nameTang dynasty painter (c. 600-673)
  • Yan Xishanb. 1883TWnot in their usual nameChinese military officer (1883–1960)
  • Yan Chongnianb. 1934CNnot in their usual nameChinese historian
  • Yan Xuetongb. 1952CNnot in their usual nameChinese academic
  • Yan Liankeb. 1958CNnot in their usual nameChinese novelist and satirist
  • Yan Qingyub. 1966CNnot in their usual nameChinese actress
  • Shan Sab. 1972FRnot in their usual nameFrench author and painter
  • Yan Senb. 1975CNnot in their usual nameChinese table tennis player
  • Yan Hanb. 1996CNnot in their usual nameChinese figure skater

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

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Diêm under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Diêm mean, and where does it come from?
salt Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
Is Diêm a male or female name?
Diêm is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Diêm have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 3.3 thousand people named Diêm, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled diem.
Where is Diêm most common?
Diêm is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 99 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Diêm?
In the United States, the national register counted 3,345 people named Diêm in 2020, about 1 in 99 thousand residents.

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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, “Diêm”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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