Diego

Popularity, 1880–2025

girls named Diego boys named Diego

By the numbers

Total US births

126,405

Estimated living today

124,000

Median age today

18

Peak year

2006

Best rank

56th

Rank in 2025

158th

First recorded

1887

Girls / boys

245 / 126,160

How old the living Diegos are

born that year still alive today

Of the 126,405 babies given the name since 1887, about 124,000 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 61,000 of them are children and 410 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2007 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where the name comes from

Origin Spanish

from an Iberian Didacus, of uncertain origin.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Notable Diegos

• Diego Maradona (1960–2020)Argentine football player and manager
• Diego Velázquez (1599–1660)Spanish painter
• Diego Forlán (born 1979)Uruguayan association football player and manager
• Diego Rivera (1886–1957)Mexican muralist
• Diego Godín (born 1986)Uruguayan association football player
• Diego Costa (born 1988)Brazilian association football player
• Diego Simeone (born 1970)Argentine association football player and manager
• Diego Milito (born 1979)Argentine football player

People named Diego with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Diego is most common

• CA39,704
• TX26,025
• FL6,212
• IL6,161
• AZ4,912
• NY4,697
• CO2,584
• GA2,467
• WA2,252
• NJ2,177

Relative to how many babies each state records, Diego is most concentrated in Nevada (4.0×), Arizona (3.2×), California (3.2×), New Mexico (3.1×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2006

The most popular boys’ names the year Diego peaked:

• Jacob
• Michael
• Joshua
• Ethan
• Matthew
• Daniel

All the names of 2006

Diego elsewhere

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Diego: births by region

Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.

By canton, Diego is most concentrated in Ticino, where 0.47% of children were given it – 294 of them.

Diego: rank by region

In 2025, Diego was given 5 times or more in 3 regions of Belgium.

In 2024, Diego was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Spain. It has come first somewhere in 3 different years.

In 2024, Diego was among the 10 most common names in 9 regions of Italy.

In 2025, Diego was given 2 times or more in 3 regions of Poland.

In 2024, with the country taken in 5 parts rather than 21, Diego appears in the lists for Centro (8th).

In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Diego appears in the lists for Province of Walloon Brabant (19th), Province of Liège (35th), Province of Hainaut (57th), Brussels-Capital Region (68th), Province of Namur (78th) and Province of Flemish Brabant (112th).

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Spain after 10 names, Italy after 10 names, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Diego by city

One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.

Diego among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

Where Diego lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 157,540 men called Diego were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.

Men: the provinces where it is densest

Listed in 52 of Spain's 52 provinces. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

Related names

• Dietrich
• Diesel
• Diedra
• Diedre
• Dierdre
• Dieter
• Diem
• Dietra

Diego against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

• Diego vs Dietrich
• Diego vs Diesel
• Diego vs Diedra
• Diego vs Diedre
• Diego vs Dierdre
• Diego vs Dieter

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