Diallo
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Diallo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Guinea than in any other country, where it is the most common surname. In French, recorded as Diallo: a surname from Fula.
- GNGuinea≈1 in 9(inferred from the name graph)
- SNSenegal≈1 in 31
- MLMali≈1 in 359
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.
- Guinea (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 315 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 9 (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,400,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Guinea, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A Fula surname from French [in turn from Fula].
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
How Diallo is read(measured from records)
Diallo 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.
- French78%
Diallo: a surname from Fula
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English9.1%
A Fula surname from French [in turn from Fula].
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Diallo 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GN Guinea | #1 | ≈1,400,000 est. | ≈1 in 9 | 35 | Diallo | 55 |
| SN Senegal | #3 | ≈510,000 est. | ≈1 in 31 | 336 | Diallo | 107 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | — | ≈120,000 est. | ≈1 in 226 | 9.7K | — | 31 |
| ML Mali | #4 | ≈55,000 est. | ≈1 in 359 | 39 | Diallo | 57 |
| FR France | #44 | ≈38,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | 2.7K | Diallo | 315 |
| ES Spain | — | 10,376 | 1 in 4.8K | 10K | Diallo | 85 |
| GW Guinea-Bissau | — | ≈3,200 est. | ≈1 in 597 | 14K | — | 2 |
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); A comprehensive look at the most common surnames in Guinea-Bissau, compiled by the Instituto Nacional de Estatística de; DGE — candidate declarations, 41 party/coalition lists (legislatives anticipees 17 Nov 2024); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies; DGE — Liste provisoire des candidatures communales Conakry 2026; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. 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)
Diallo is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
West Africa
as a nameAfrican Names
In German, aus Senegal stammender männl. Vom., der in der Malinke-Sprache »der Kühne« bedeutet.
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Bold one.
as a nameThe African book of names
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)
- Mohamed Juldeh Jallohb. 1970SLnot in their usual nameSierra Leonean politician
- Mamadou Diallob. 1971SNSenegalese footballer (born 1971)
- Rachel Dolezalb. 1977USnot in their usual nameAmerican transracial activist
- Black Mb. 1984FRnot in their usual nameFrench-Guinean rapper and singer-songwriter
- Abdoulaye Diallob. 1992FRSenegalese and French footballer (born March 1992)
- Mouhamadou Diallob. 1995SNSenegalese association football player (born 1995)
- Abdou Diallob. 1996FRFrench-Senegalese footballer (born 1996)
- Alpha Diallob. 1997USAmerican basketball player
- Hamidou Diallob. 1998USAmerican basketball player (born 1998)
- Amad Diallob. 2002CIIvorian association football player (born 2002)
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 37 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 10K | #530 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 10K | #530 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies | — | 9.7K | #62 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 2.7K | — |
| SN Senegal | DGE — candidate declarations, 41 party/coalition lists (legislatives anticipees 17 Nov 2024) | 2024 | 336 | #3 |
| ML Mali | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 39 | #5 |
| GN Guinea | DGE — Liste provisoire des candidatures communales Conakry 2026 | 2026 | 35 | #3 |
| GN Guinea | Patronymes de Guinée — Fodé Tass Sylla surname inventory (432 noms de famille) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- 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
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Diallo come from?
- A Fula surname from French [in turn from Fula]. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What does the name Diallo mean?
- In French, Diallo: a surname from Fula
- In which country does Diallo have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.4 million people named Diallo in Guinea, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled diallo.
- How common is the name Diallo?
- In Spain, the national register counted 10,376 people named Diallo, about 1 in 4.8 thousand residents.
- How common is Diallo compared with other names?
- In Guinea, Diallo is the most common surname of 427 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Diallo?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/dialloThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Diallo” — the most common surname in Guinea. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.