Diego

What Diego means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Diego yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #158 vs #444 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Diego?

US: Falling: down from #125 in 2015. England & Wales: Falling: down from #397 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2006, when 8,403 boys got the name (#56 that year). First in the US records in 1887.

How common

• About 1 in 727 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 3,126 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 2,806 baby boys in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in NM (5.54 per 1,000 boys), AZ (3.06 per 1,000 boys), CA (2.84 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Diego is #158 in the US and #444 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.8% of US babies named Diego were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Diago27 US
• Diogo10 US · 6 E&W
• Diako0 US · 6 E&W

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Diego

Boys

• Angel#67Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #67 vs #1,307 in 2025
• Xavier#108Editor’s note Down from #90 in 2015 to #108 in 2025 in the US
• Angelo#304Editor’s note Down from #299 in 2015 to #304 in 2025 in the US
• Aldo#960Italian form of Aldous, meaning “old”^*
• Joan#984“God is gracious”^*
• Giovanni#123Same root as John, possibly meaning “God is gracious”^*

For a sister

• Isabela#664Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1982, with 6 babies
• Gabriella#105Editor’s note Down from #54 in 2015 to #105 in 2025 in the US
• Anahi#482Spanish, meaning “cockspur coral tree (Erythrina crista-galli)”^*
• Marianna#872Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #872 vs #1,892 in 2025
• Amaya#180“the end”^*
• Dulce#770Spanish, meaning “sweet”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Spanish & Italian, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Diego’s. Rank is US 2025.