Dieu
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Dieu is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Congo - Kinshasa it is the 7th most common given name. Recorded meaning: a god, male divinity.
- SESweden1 in 72K(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 164K
- ISIceland1 in 175K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 236 (measured from records)
- 1 in 72K (inferred from the name graph)
1,701 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a god, male divinity
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Dieu 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 1,701 | 1 in 196K | 1.1K | Dieu | 112 |
| SE Sweden | — | 142 | 1 in 72K | 142 | Dieu | 5 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 44 | 1 in 393K | 28 | — | 6 |
| CM Cameroon | #638 | ≈40 est. | ≈1 in 699K | — | Dieu | 15 |
| FI Finland | — | 34 | 1 in 164K | 117 | — | 1 |
| DK Denmark | — | 18 | 1 in 326K | 238 | — | — |
| IS Iceland | — | 2 | 1 in 175K | 2 | — | — |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | #7 | — | — | — | Dieu | 27 |
1,701 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; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Dieu 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.
In enm, alternative form of dewe (“due”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Catalan, second-person plural present indicative of dir
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Sundanese, here
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)
- Antoine Dieub. 1662FRpainter (1662-1727)
- Hippolyte Dieub. 1812FRFrench official (1812-1887)
- Ernest Dieub. 1842FRFrench politician
- Marcel Dieub. 1902BEBelgian editor
- Daniel Dieub. 1956FRFrench politician
- Bruno Dieub. 1962chess player
- Marie-Caroline Dieu-Nosjeanb. 1971FRresearcher ORCID ID = 0000-0002-1697-8914
- Nade Dieub. 1973BEBelgian actress
- Romane Dieub. 2000FRFrench ski jumper
- Hervé DieuFRFrench cinematographer
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 41 sources across 24 countries.
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- 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
- What does the name Dieu mean, and where does it come from?
- a god, male divinity Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How common is the name Dieu?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,701 people named Dieu in 2020, about 1 in 196 thousand residents.
- How common is Dieu compared with other names?
- In Congo - Kinshasa, Dieu is the 7th most common given name of 20,652 given names recorded there.
- Is Dieu a male or female name?
- Dieu is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Dieu have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.7 thousand people named Dieu, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dieu.
- Where is Dieu most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Dieu is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 72 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
What do you want to know about Dieu?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/dieuThe 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, “Dieu” — the 7th most common given name in Congo - Kinshasa. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.