Diamante
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: An artificial diamond used as adornment, such as a rhinestone
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˌdaɪəˈmɑnti/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Diamante is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 8.7K(inferred from the name graph)
- ARArgentina1 in 97K
- BRBrazil1 in 207K
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 71 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 8.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈13,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
- Late Latindiamas(measured from records)
- Greekadamas(measured from records)
From Late Latin diamas, altered from Greek adamas 'indomitable'; the gemstone name by folk etymology.
Sources 1
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
How Diamante is read(measured from records)
Diamante is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English52%
An artificial diamond used as adornment, such as a rhinestone.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish26%
From Late Latin diamas, altered from Greek adamas 'indomitable'; the gemstone name by folk etymology.
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
- Portuguese8.3%
diamond
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Diamante 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 8.7K | — | Diamante | 37 |
| IT Italy | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 47K | 34 | Diamante | 29 |
| BR Brazil | 1,025 | 1 in 207K | 1K | Diamante | 69 |
| AR Argentina | 468 | 1 in 97K | 468 | Diamante | 51 |
| US United States | 442 | 1 in 753K | 472 | Diamante | 71 |
| AO Angola | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 94K | — | Diamante | 10 |
| LV Latvia | ≈19 est. | ≈1 in 99K | 1 | — | — |
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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Diamante 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 Italian, Dall’it. diamante; nome soprattutto femminile, oggi poco comune.
as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani
In Italian, do lat. adamas, adamantis; nome medieval de votos de beleza e riqueza
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In Italian, Nome per lo più femminile, oggi di uso non frequente.
as a nameNomi e Cognomi: Saggio di ricerche etimologiche e storiche
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)
- Luigi Diamanteb. 1904ITItalian painter (1904-1971)
- Julio Diamanteb. 1930ESSpanish film director (1930–2020)
- Ronaldo Diamanteb. 1958BRBrazilian musician
- Alberto Diamanteb. 1970CAItalian Canadian film professional
- David Diamanteb. 1971USAmerican ring announcer
- Federica Guzmánb. 1981VEnot in their usual nameVenezuelan model
- Giovanna Diamanteb. 1997BRBrazilian swimmer
- Bautista Diamanteb. 2003ARArgentinian athletics competitor (born 2003)
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 41 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1K | #9,057 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 472 | #48,348 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 468 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 442 | #47,878 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 391 | #50,261 |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name 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
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
- Where does the name Diamante come from?
- From Late Latin diamas, altered from Greek adamas 'indomitable'; the gemstone name by folk etymology. Recorded by Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios.
- How do you pronounce Diamante?
- A machine transcription gives /ˌdaɪəˈmɑnti/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Diamante mean?
- In English, An artificial diamond used as adornment, such as a rhinestone.
- In which country does Diamante have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 13 thousand people named Diamante in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled diamante.
- How common is the name Diamante?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 1,025 people named Diamante, about 1 in 207 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/diamanteThe 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, “Diamante”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.