Diakite
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Diakite is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Côte d’Ivoire than in any other country. In Mauritania it is the 3rd most common surname. Recorded meaning: From Fula via French Diakité.
- MLMali≈1 in 584(inferred from the name graph)
- FRFrance≈1 in 9.7K
- GNGuinea≈1 in 313
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.
- Côte d’Ivoire (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 229 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 313 (inferred from the name graph)
≈54,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Guinea, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From Fula via French Diakité.
Sources 1
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Diakite 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | #617 | ≈54,000 est. | ≈1 in 511 | 12K | Diakite | 31 |
| GN Guinea | — | ≈40,000 est. | ≈1 in 313 | 3 | — | 15 |
| ML Mali | #13 | ≈33,000 est. | ≈1 in 584 | 17 | Diakite | 41 |
| SN Senegal | #147 | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 1K | 2 | Diakite | 18 |
| FR France | #499 | ≈7,000 est. | ≈1 in 9.7K | 896 | Diakite | 229 |
| MR Mauritania | #3 | ≈3,900 est. | ≈1 in 1K | — | Diakite | 17 |
| ES Spain | — | 2,152 | 1 in 23K | 2.2K | Diakite | 39 |
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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; DGE — candidate declarations, 41 party/coalition lists (legislatives anticipees 17 Nov 2024); DGE — Liste provisoire des candidatures communales Conakry 2026. 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)
Diakite is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A surname from Fula.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Yoro Diakitéb. 1932MLMalian politician and military figure (1932–1973)
- Timbuktub. 1975SEnot in their usual nameSwedish rapper
- Soumbeïla Diakitéb. 1984MLMalian footballer
- Drissa Diakitéb. 1985MLMalian footballer (*1985)
- Binta Diakitéb. 1985CIIvorian footballer
- Modibo Diakitéb. 1987FRFrench association football player
- Samba Diakitéb. 1989FRMalian and French footballer
- Gazob. 1994FRnot in their usual nameFrench rapper of Guinean origin
- Bafodé Diakitéb. 2001FRFrench footballer (born 2001)
- Ibrahim Diakitéb. 2003GNFrench-Guinean footballer
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 29 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies | — | 12K | #51 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 2.2K | #2,281 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 2.2K | #2,281 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 896 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 844 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 224 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 44 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 16 | — |
| ML Mali | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 7 | #34 |
| GN Guinea | DGE — Liste provisoire des candidatures communales Conakry 2026 | 2026 | 3 | #15 |
| SN Senegal | DGE — candidate declarations, 41 party/coalition lists (legislatives anticipees 17 Nov 2024) | 2024 | 2 | #69 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Diakite mean, and where does it come from?
- From Fula via French Diakité. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Diakite have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 54 thousand people named Diakite in Côte d’Ivoire, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled diakite.
- How common is the name Diakite?
- In Spain, the national register counted 2,152 people named Diakite, about 1 in 23 thousand residents.
- How common is Diakite compared with other names?
- In Côte d’Ivoire, Diakite is the 617th most common surname of 18,411 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/diakiteThe 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, “Diakite” — the 617th most common surname in Côte d’Ivoire. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.