Dieng
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/djɑ̃/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Dieng is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Senegal than in any other country, where it is the 23rd most common surname. Recorded meaning: A surname from Senegal.
- SNSenegal≈1 in 113(inferred from the name graph)
- FRFrance≈1 in 27K
- GNGuinea≈1 in 2K
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.
- Senegal (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 202 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 113 (inferred from the name graph)
≈140,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Senegal, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A surname from Senegal.
Sources 1
Where in the world(measured from records)
Dieng 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 | #23 | ≈140,000 est. | ≈1 in 113 | 114 | Dieng | 69 |
| GN Guinea | — | ≈6,400 est. | ≈1 in 2K | 1 | — | 9 |
| FR France | — | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 27K | 229 | Dieng | 202 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 33K | — | Dieng | 36 |
| ES Spain | — | 1,859 | 1 in 27K | 1.9K | Dieng | 34 |
| MR Mauritania | #59 | ≈490 est. | ≈1 in 8.2K | — | Dieng | 12 |
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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); 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); DGE — Liste provisoire des candidatures communales Conakry 2026. 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)
Dieng 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 kha, tree
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)
- Adama Diengb. 1950SNSenegalese lawyer
- Rose Dieng-Kuntzb. 1956SNSenegalese computer scientist (1956–2008)
- Fatou Diengb. 1983MRMauritanian sprinter
- Fatou Diengb. 1985SNFrench basketball player
- Abdoulaye Diengb. 1989SNSenegalese footballer
- Seny Diengb. 1994CHSwiss/Senegalese association football player
- Aliou Diengb. 1997MLMalian association football player
- Umo Diallo Diengb. 1998ESSpanish basketball player (born 1998)
- Bamba Diengb. 2000SNSenegalese association football player
- Samba Diengresearcher
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 33 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 1.9K | #2,579 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 1.9K | #2,578 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 229 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 175 | — |
| SN Senegal | DGE — candidate declarations, 41 party/coalition lists (legislatives anticipees 17 Nov 2024) | 2024 | 114 | #16 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 59 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 24 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 12 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 2 | — |
| GN Guinea | DGE — Liste provisoire des candidatures communales Conakry 2026 | 2026 | 1 | #17 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 1 | — |
| GN Guinea | Patronymes de Guinée — Fodé Tass Sylla surname inventory (432 noms de famille) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Dieng mean, and where does it come from?
- A surname from Senegal. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Dieng?
- A machine transcription gives /djɑ̃/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Dieng have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 139 thousand people named Dieng in Senegal, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dieng.
- How common is the name Dieng?
- In Spain, the national register counted 1,859 people named Dieng, about 1 in 27 thousand residents.
- How common is Dieng compared with other names?
- In Senegal, Dieng is the 23rd most common surname of 3,622 surnames 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/diengThe 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, “Dieng” — the 23rd most common surname in Senegal. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.