Dīm

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Dīm is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Middle English dim, dym, from Old English dim, dimm (“dim, dark, gloomy; wretched, grievous, sad, unhappy”), from Proto-West Germanic *dimm, from Proto-Germanic *dimmaz (“dark”), from Proto-Indo-.

  • NLNetherlands1 in 118K(measured from records)
  • USUnited States1 in 484K
  • SESweden1 in 1M

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

687 people, 2020

Record sources
110 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 118K (inferred from the name graph)

Netherlands

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

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)
Derivation of Dīm: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Dīm
  1. Middle Englishdim(measured from records)
  2. Old Englishdim“dim“dim, dark, gloomy; wretched, grievous, sad, unhappy”(measured from records)
  3. Proto-West Germanic*dimm(measured from records)
  4. Proto-Germanic*dimmaz“dark”(measured from records)
  5. Proto-Indo-European*dʰem-“to whisk“to whisk, smoke; obscure”(measured from records)

From Middle English dim, dym, from Old English dim, dimm (“dim, dark, gloomy; wretched, grievous, sad, unhappy”), from Proto-West Germanic *dimm, from Proto-Germanic *dimmaz (“dark”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰem- (“to whisk, smoke; obscure”). Compare Faroese dimmur, Icelandic dimmur (“dark”) and dimma (“darkness”).

Cited for this meaning 1

Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Dīm 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.

Where Dīm is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States6871 in 484K962—25
NL Netherlands1461 in 118K146—5
BR Brazil341 in 6.2M170——
SE Sweden101 in 1M10——
DK Denmark41 in 1.5M5——
MD Moldova11 in 3.4M1——

687 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); e-services.md — living population register. 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 names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Dīm is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Ukrainian given name52 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ukraine, Russia, Greece, United States

    Languages: Ukrainian, Russian, Greek

    Also written Дім, Дим, Dim, Δημ, Дым

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Dīm under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Dīm mean, and where does it come from?
From Middle English dim, dym, from Old English dim, dimm (“dim, dark, gloomy; wretched, grievous, sad, unhappy”), from Proto-West Germanic *dimm, from Proto-Germanic *dimmaz (“dark”), from Proto-Indo-… Recorded by Wiktionary.
Is Dīm a male or female name?
Dīm 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.
In which country does Dīm have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 687 people named Dīm, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Dīm most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Dīm is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 118 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Dīm?
In the United States, the national register counted 687 people named Dīm in 2020, about 1 in 484 thousand residents.

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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, “Dīm”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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