Diab
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Diab is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Egypt than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Christian/Muslim/Arabic surname, probably from ذئب (“wolf”), or Old Norse Deyja'b ("Rare Death").
- EGEgypt≈1 in 3.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- LBLebanon≈1 in 3.3K
- SYSyria≈1 in 3.3K
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.
- Egypt (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 214 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈33,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Egypt, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Christian/Muslim/Arabic surname, probably from ذئب (“wolf”), or Old Norse Deyja'b ("Rare Death").
Sources 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Diab 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EG Egypt | #178 | ≈33,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.2K | — | Diab | 116 |
| SY Syria | #159 | ≈5,800 est. | ≈1 in 3.3K | — | Diab | 43 |
| JO Jordan | #884 | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 4K | — | Diab | 65 |
| DZ Algeria | — | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 20K | listed | Diab | 28 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Diab | 59 |
| LB Lebanon | #191 | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 3.3K | — | Diab | 67 |
| IL Israel | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 5.5K | — | Diab | 50 |
| US United States | — | 1,400 | 1 in 238K | 1.8K | Diab | 214 |
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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; the dz-kaggle-names 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Diab is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In mfe, ghost
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)
- Yussef Diabb. 1917ILIsraeli politician
- Roseanne Diabb. 1949ZAresearcher
- Hassan Diabb. 1953PSLebanese-Canadian convicted terrorist and sociologist
- Hassan Diabb. 1959LBLebanese engineer, academic and minister of higher education
- Amr Diabb. 1961EGEgyptian singer, composer and actor
- Lena Diabb. 1965CACanadian politician
- Maya Diabb. 1978LBLebanese singer, entertainer, actress and television personality
- Mohamed Diabb. 1978EGEgyptian screenwriter and director
- Nessab. 1981USnot in their usual nameAmerican radio personality and television presenter
- Ali Diabb. 1982SYSyrian footballer (born 1982)
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 36 sources across 22 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.8K | #15,885 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.4K | #19,334 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.1K | #22,212 |
| DZ Algeria | Algerian names (Kaggle, MIT) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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
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 Diab mean, and where does it come from?
- Christian/Muslim/Arabic surname, probably from ذئب (“wolf”), or Old Norse Deyja'b ("Rare Death"). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Diab have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 33 thousand people named Diab in Egypt, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled diab.
- How common is the name Diab?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,400 people named Diab in 2010, about 1 in 238 thousand residents.
- How common is Diab compared with other names?
- In Egypt, Diab is the 178th most common surname of 306,210 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/diabThe 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, “Diab” — the 178th most common surname in Egypt. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.