Dieu

given name · Vietnamese · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Dieu is a given name, most frequently recorded in the Congo - Kinshasa, where it is the 7th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Vietnamese and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: a god, male divinity.

rarermore common
  • CDCongo - Kinshasa1 in 876◐
  • FRFrance1 in 186K
  • RWRwanda1 in 1.3K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈1.4K ●

across 8 countries

Sources
225 ●

22K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 35K ◐

Iceland

Meaning & origin●

a god, male divinity

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Dieu is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CD Congo - Kinshasa#73,7543.8K rec.——Dieu23
FR France—2,83114K rec.—468Dieu225
US United States—1,123958 rec.1 in 296K1.1KDieu110
CI Côte d’Ivoire—237267 rec.——Dieu13
BE Belgium—187986 rec.—1.5KDieu60
CM Cameroon#579160250 rec.——Dieu15
RW Rwanda#12146249 rec.——Dieu22
SE Sweden—14278 rec.1 in 72K142Dieu6
BJ Benin#7713155 rec.——Dieu16
CA Canada—62107 rec.—1Dieu22
BR Brazil—29—1 in 7.3M29——
FI Finland—28△1 rec.1 in 199K117—1

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Vietnamese98K74%
  • English13K10%
  • French8.2K6%
  • 3K2%
  • Spanish1.6K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Vietnamese98,15374%
English13,24310%
French8,1606%
2,9512%
Spanish1,6141%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Dieu is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate given name30K records spelled Dieu18 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Malaysia, China

    Also written Diệu, Diêu, Diếu, Diễu, Diëu

  • English given name27K records spelled Dieu17 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Australia, United Kingdom, Congo - Kinshasa

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Diệu, Diêu, Dīēů, Dîëū, Dįęú

  • a separate given name3.8K records spelled Dieu3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Rwanda, Italy

    Also written Diệu, Diêu

  • Spanish given name3.6K records spelled Dieu8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, El Salvador, Congo - Kinshasa, Chile

    Also written Diệu, Dįęü, Diëu, Diêu, Diêụ

  • Swahili given name994 records spelled Dieu5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Congo - Kinshasa, Rwanda, United States, South Africa

    Languages: Swahili, Kinyarwanda

    Also written Diệu

  • Danish given name810 records spelled Dieu13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark, Norway, United States, Congo - Kinshasa

    Languages: Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian

    Also written Dīëû, Dïęü, Dïêu, Diệu, Diêu

52 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

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.

Other recorded senses●

Dieu 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 enm, alternative form of dewe (“due”)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Catalan, second-person plural present indicative of dir

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Sundanese, here

    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.

Over time●

051015202000200520102015202019 · 2019

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Dieu in SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023), Sweden, 1999–2020
Yearrecords
199915
200015
200112
200212
200312
200412
200512
200612
200712
200812
200912
201013
201114
201215
201315
201416
201516
201617
201717
201818
201919
202019

SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 22 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

16001700180019002000Antoine Dieu, b. 1662Hippolyte Dieu, b. 1812Ernest Dieu, b. 1842Marcel Dieu, b. 1902Daniel Dieu, b. 1956Bruno Dieu, b. 1962Marie-Caroline Dieu-Nosjean, b. 1971Nade Dieu, b. 1973Romane Dieu, b. 2000

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●

Attested in 41 sources across 24 countries.

Official registers attesting Dieu
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)20081.5K#746
BE BelgiumStatbel — Noms de famille (family names)—1.3K#855
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20201.1K#8,515
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020902#28,173
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010805#29,366
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1951648—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000584#36,232
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020578#8,515
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1961572—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1971567—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1941520—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1981481—

Reference works 4

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • 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 2026-09-12 data build · 96 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Dieu?
We estimate roughly 1.4 thousand people bear Dieu (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
In which country does Dieu have the most bearers?
Dieu is most frequently recorded in the Congo - Kinshasa, where it is most often spelled dieu.
How common is Dieu compared with other names?
In the Congo - Kinshasa, Dieu is the 7th most common given name of 18,770 given names recorded there.
Is Dieu a male or female name?
Dieu is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
What does the name Dieu mean?
Recorded meaning: a god, male divinity
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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, “Dieu” — the 7th most common given name in Congo - Kinshasa. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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