Diogo
given name · Latin script
Meaning: instruido
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/djoɡu/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Diogo is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. In Portugal it is the 19th most common given name.
- PTPortugal≈1 in 104(inferred from the name graph)
- BRBrazil1 in 1.3K
- CHSwitzerland≈1 in 3.8K
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 226 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 104 (inferred from the name graph)
165,135 people, 2022
Highest-authority source
Portugal, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
instruido
Sources 1
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Diogo 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 | #194 | 165,135 | 1 in 1.3K | 165K | Diogo | 226 |
| PT Portugal | #19 | ≈99,000 est. | ≈1 in 104 | listed | Diogo | 202 |
| AO Angola | #66 | ≈7,100 est. | ≈1 in 4.6K | — | Diogo | 41 |
| FR France | — | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 26K | 1.3K | Diogo | 5 |
| CH Switzerland | #531 | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 3.8K | 208 | Diogo | 67 |
| FI Finland | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 4K | 107 | — | 6 |
| LU Luxembourg | #32 | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | — | Diogo | 24 |
165,135 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); the pt-irn-lista-nomes register; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)
- Diogo Diasb. 1450PTPortuguese explorer
- Diogo Cãob. 1452PTPortuguese explorer
- Diogo Lopes de Sequeirab. 1465PTGovernor of Portuguese India
- Diogo Morgadob. 1981PTPortuguese film and television actor and former model
- Diogo Luis Santob. 1987BRBrazilian footballer
- Diogo Jotab. 1996PTPortuguese footballer (1996-2025)
- Rúben Nevesb. 1997PTnot in their usual namePortuguese footballer (born 1997)
- Diogo Dalotb. 1999PTPortuguese footballer (born 1999)
- Diogo Costab. 1999PTPortuguese footballer (born 1999)
- Diogo Leiteb. 1999PTPortuguese association football player
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)
Attested in 68 sources across 34 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 165K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 164K | #199 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 156K | #319 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 5.4K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 1.3K | #801 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 906 | #199 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 107 | #2,900 |
| PT Portugal | IRN — Lista de Nomes Próprios admitidos | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Diogo mean, and where does it come from?
- instruido Recorded by Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,….
- What are other forms of the name Diogo?
- In the etymology graph, Thiago, Tiago and Didacus are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Diogo have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 165 thousand people named Diogo, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled diogo.
- How do you pronounce Diogo?
- A machine transcription gives /djoɡu/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- Is Diogo a male or female name?
- Diogo 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.
- How common is the name Diogo?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 165,135 people named Diogo in 2022, about 1 in 1.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Diogo compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Diogo is the 194th most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/diogoThe 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, “Diogo” — the 194th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.