Dí

surname · Latin script

Meaning: to chase

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

Dí is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • 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)

≈110,000 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
195 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 420 (inferred from the name graph)

Argentina, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

DíLatin(measured from records)
ДиCyrillic(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Di in BR Brazil, AR Argentina, UY Uruguay, 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)

to chase

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 34 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Dí 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 Dí is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AR Argentina—≈110,000 est.≈1 in 4202Di120
IT Italy—≈100,000 est.≈1 in 625listedDì100
BR Brazil—≈16,000 est.≈1 in 14K153Di127
VE Venezuela—≈14,000 est.≈1 in 2.1K—Di'61
UY Uruguay—≈2,600 est.≈1 in 1.3K—Di52
NL Netherlands—≈1,400 est.≈1 in 12K55—14
US United States—5701 in 584K1.7KDí195
DO Dominican Republic#620≈220 est.≈1 in 47K—Dï24

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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Dí is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate surname20 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Vietnam, Romania

    Also written Dĩ, Dï, Dī, Dì, Dî

  • Arabic surname18 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt

    Also written Dï, Dî, Dį, Dì, Dī

  • English surname62 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Australia, Austria, Switzerland

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Di, Dï, Dî, Dì, Di'

  • French surname13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Switzerland, Canada, Belgium

    Also written Di, D'I, Dî, Dï, Dì

  • a separate name9 spellings in the group

    Also written Dī, Ḍi, Dî, Ḍī, Ḏī

14 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Dí is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In sga, third-person singular feminine of di: from her

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Czech, third-person singular present of dít

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Irish, genitive singular of deoch

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Chinese, Hanyu Pinyin reading of 㣙

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In bnt-pro, string

    as a wordBantu Lexical Reconstructions 3 (BLR3), Tervuren 2002/2003

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)

500100015002000Di Renjie, b. 630Di Li, b. 990Di Qing, b. 1008Joseph Ti-kang, b. 1928Tik Chi-yuen, b. 1957
  • Di Renjieb. 630CNChinese official
  • Di Lib. 990Song dynasty person (CBDB = 16444)
  • Di Qingb. 1008CNMilitary General
  • Joseph Ti-kangb. 1928TWnot in their usual nameRoman Catholic archbishop
  • Tik Chi-yuenb. 1957GBnot in their usual nameMember of the Hong Kong Legislative Council
  • Di ZhixunTang dynasty person CBDB = 16434
  • Di WenweiSong dynasty person CBDB = 16438
  • Di XiyanSong dynasty person (CBDB = 16439)
  • Di ZunyiSong dynasty person CBDB = 16445
  • Di ZunweiSong dynasty person CBDB = 16446

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 Dí 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 Dí mean, and where does it come from?
to chase Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
What are other forms of the name Dí?
In the etymology graph, Dighe is a form of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Dí have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 108 thousand people named Dí in Argentina, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled di.
How common is the name Dí?
In the United States, the national register counted 570 people named Dí in 2010, about 1 in 584 thousand residents.
How common is Dí compared with other names?
In the Dominican Republic, Dí is the 620th most common surname of 26,844 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, “Dí” — the 620th most common surname in Dominican Republic. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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