Diop
surname · French · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Diop is a surname, with more bearers in India than in any other country. In Senegal it is the 2nd most common surname. It appears chiefly in French and Arabic, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Senegalese/Wolof: name of Senegal origin.
- SNSenegal1 in 41◐
- ESSpain1 in 5.9K
- ITItaly1 in 10K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈94K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 264 ●
- 1 in 5.9K ◐
across 16 countries
recorded for this name
64K records
Official registry-verified
Spain
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Deb in IN India, TH Thailand.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
Senegalese/Wolof: name of Senegal origin
Sources 1
- African Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | — | 80,605△ | 1.5K rec. | 1 in 16K | 81K | Deb | 28 |
| SN Senegal | #2 | 14,930 | 7.9K rec. | — | 381 | Diop | 93 |
| ES Spain | — | 8,451△ | 2.9K rec. | 1 in 5.9K | 8.5K | Diop | 71 |
| IT Italy | #572 | 4,069 | 4.6K rec. | — | 1 | Diop | 66 |
| US United States | — | 2,246 | 8.1K rec. | 1 in 148K | 11K | Diop | 226 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | — | 1,091 | 176 rec. | — | 509 | Diop | 17 |
| MX Mexico | — | 968 | 969 rec. | — | — | Diop | 1 |
| FR France | #500 | 938 | 34K rec. | 1 in 72K | 938 | Diop | 264 |
| CA Canada | — | 357 | 322 rec. | — | — | Diop | 70 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 349△ | 73 rec. | 1 in 24K | 349 | — | 31 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 324 | 251 rec. | — | listed | Diop | 67 |
| BR Brazil | — | 278 | — | 1 in 762K | 278 | — | — |
Roughly 81K people in India bear this name (about 1 in 16K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- French72K45%
- Arabic33K20%
- Spanish25K15%
- English11K7%
- Catalan8.5K5%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| French | 72,459 | 45% |
| Arabic | 32,599 | 20% |
| Spanish | 24,513 | 15% |
| English | 11,072 | 7% |
| Catalan | 8,451 | 5% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Diop is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Ruler, scholar
as a nameThe book of African names
In English, David, Senegalese poet
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Ruler.
as a nameThe African book of names
Khane
as a nameA Handbook of African Names
In osx, deep
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●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1891 | 5 |
| 1901 | 2 |
| 1911 | 1 |
| 1921 | 6 |
| 1931 | 2 |
| 1941 | 35 |
| 1951 | 64 |
| 1961 | 137 |
| 1971 | 321 |
| 1981 | 861 |
| 1991 | 938 |
FR INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) — 11 years between 1891–1991. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Cheikh Anta Diopb. 1923SNSenegalese politician, essayist (1923–1986)
- David Diopb. 1927FRSenegalese poet (1927-1960)
- Djibril Diop Mambetyb. 1945SNSenegalese film director (1945–1998)
- David Diopb. 1966FRwriter, born 1966
- Pape Malick Diopb. 1974SNSenegalese footballer
- Papa Bouba Diopb. 1978SNSenegalese footballer (1978–2020)
- Mati Diopb. 1982FRFrench-Senegalese actress and film director (born 1982)
- DeSagana Diopb. 1982SNSenegalese basketball player (born 1982)
- Anna Diopb. 1988USSenegalese-born actress
- Issa Diopb. 1997FRMoroccan footballer
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 44 sources across 27 countries.
Reference works 5
- Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (Tom II: C-D)
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 · 56 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Diop?
- We estimate roughly 94 thousand people bear Diop (counting its spellings and scripts) across 16 countries in our records.
- In which country does Diop have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 81 thousand people bear Diop in India, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled deb.
- How common is Diop compared with other names?
- In Senegal, Diop is the 2nd most common surname of 3,356 surnames recorded there.
- What does the name Diop mean?
- Recorded meaning: Senegalese/Wolof: name of Senegal origin
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About this data
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, “Diop” — the 2nd most common surname in Senegal. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.