Diop
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Senegalese/Wolof: name of Senegal origin
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/djɔp/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Diop is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Senegal than in any other country, where it is the 2nd most common surname.
- SNSenegal≈1 in 28(inferred from the name graph)
- ESSpain1 in 5.9K
- FRFrance≈1 in 5.9K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Diop itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Senegal (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 279 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 28 (inferred from the name graph)
≈570,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Senegal, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Deb in IN India.
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)
Senegalese/Wolof: name of Senegal origin
Sources 1
- African Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Diop 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SN Senegal | #2 | ≈570,000 est. | ≈1 in 28 | 381 | Diop | 107 |
| IN India | — | 80,605as Deb | 1 in 16K | 81K | Deb | 29 |
| FR France | #281 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.9K | 938 | Diop | 279 |
| IT Italy | #740 | ≈9,900 est. | ≈1 in 6.3K | 1 | Diop | 72 |
| ES Spain | — | 8,451 | 1 in 5.9K | 8.5K | Diop | 74 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | — | ≈8,400 est. | ≈1 in 3.3K | 509 | — | 16 |
| MR Mauritania | — | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | 32K | — | 32 |
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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); The page discusses common family names in Mauritania, reflecting the rich cultural heritage and diverse history of the c; 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); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies. 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)
Diop 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.
Ruler, scholar
as a nameThe book of African names
In English, David, Senegalese poet
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Ruler.
as a nameThe African book of names
Khane
as a nameA Handbook of African Names
In osx, deep
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)
- Cheikh Anta Diopb. 1923SNSenegalese politician, essayist (1923–1986)
- David Diopb. 1927FRSenegalese poet (1927-1960)
- Djibril Diop Mambetyb. 1945SNSenegalese film director (1945–1998)
- David Diopb. 1966FRwriter, born 1966
- Pape Malick Diopb. 1974SNSenegalese footballer
- Papa Bouba Diopb. 1978SNSenegalese footballer (1978–2020)
- Mati Diopb. 1982FRFrench-Senegalese actress and film director (born 1982)
- DeSagana Diopb. 1982SNSenegalese basketball player (born 1982)
- Anna Diopb. 1988USSenegalese-born actress
- Issa Diopb. 1997FRMoroccan 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 45 sources across 28 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 8.5K | #656 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 8.5K | #656 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 938 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 861 | — |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies | — | 509 | #959 |
| SN Senegal | DGE — candidate declarations, 41 party/coalition lists (legislatives anticipees 17 Nov 2024) | 2024 | 381 | #2 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 321 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 137 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 64 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 35 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 6 | — |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 5 | #4,195 |
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
- What does the name Diop mean, and where does it come from?
- Senegalese/Wolof: name of Senegal origin Recorded by African Names.
- How do you pronounce Diop?
- A machine transcription gives /djɔp/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Diop have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 571 thousand people named Diop in Senegal, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled diop.
- How common is the name Diop?
- In Spain, the national register counted 8,451 people named Diop, about 1 in 5.9 thousand residents.
- How common is Diop compared with other names?
- In Senegal, Diop is the 2nd most common surname of 3,622 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Diop?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/diopThe 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, “Diop” — the 2nd most common surname in Senegal. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.