Diógenes
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a male given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Diogenes
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: Tribunal Electoral, 2024
/d͡ʒiˈɔ.ʒe.nes/(recorded in a dictionary) Portuguese · from Wiktionary
Diógenes is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- DODominican Republic≈1 in 2.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- PAPanama≈1 in 2.6K
- ECEcuador1 in 5K
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 Diógenes itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 140 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.4K (inferred from the name graph)
11,172 people, 2022
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Dominican Republic, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Diogenes in BR Brazil, PE Peru, VE Venezuela and 3 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)a male given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Diogenes
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Diógenes 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | — | 11,172 | 1 in 19K | 12K | Diogenes | 135 |
| DO Dominican Republic | #176 | ≈4,700 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | — | Diogenes | 27 |
| VE Venezuela | #859 | 3,926 | 1 in 7.3K | 3.9K | Diogenes | 29 |
| EC Ecuador | #612 | 3,365 | 1 in 5K | 3.4K | Diogenes | 21 |
| PE Peru | — | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Diogenes | 33 |
| PA Panama | #250 | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 2.6K | 6 | Diogenes | 33 |
11,172 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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 — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); INEC — civil registry names; Tribunal Electoral — Boletín, postulaciones for the 5 May 2024 general election. 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Diógenes Hequetb. 1866UYUruguayan painter (1866-1902)
- Diógenes Taboadab. 1887ARArgentinian lawyer and politician (1887-1978)
- Diógenes Tabordab. 1890ARcartoonist (1890-1926)
- Hugo Diógenes Piucillb. 1901ARArgentinian politician
- Diógenes Domínguezb. 1902PYParaguayan footballer
- Diógenes Larab. 1902BOBolivian footballer (1902-1971)
- Diógenes Rebouçasb. 1914BRBrazilian architect and urban planner
- Diógenes da Silva Matthesb. 1931BRBrazilian priest (1931–2016)
- Francisco Diógenes de Araújob. 1940BRBrazilian economist (1940–2006)
- Diógenes Lunab. 1977CUboxer
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)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)10 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 12K | #1,900 |
| PA Panama | Tribunal Electoral — Boletín, postulaciones for the 5 May 2024 general election | 2024 | 6 | #457 |
| PA Panama | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 3 | #113 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name 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 Diógenes mean, and where does it come from?
- a male given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Diogenes Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Diógenes?
- It depends on the language: in Portuguese /d͡ʒiˈɔ.ʒe.nes/ (Wiktionary); in Spanish /d̪joçenes/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Diógenes a male or female name?
- Diógenes is a male 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 Diógenes have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 11 thousand people named Diógenes, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled diogenes.
- How common is the name Diógenes?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 11,172 people named Diógenes in 2022, about 1 in 19 thousand residents.
- How common is Diógenes compared with other names?
- In the Dominican Republic, Diógenes is the 176th most common given name of 44,971 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Diógenes?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/di%C3%B3genesThe 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, “Diógenes” — the 176th most common given name in Dominican Republic. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.