The DIEGO surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	3,864	7941	0.001	14
United States (1880 census)	51	48690	0	1
Change since 1880	+3813	+40749	+N/A	+13
Other Countries
Australia	10	88893	0	1
United Kingdom	0			0

Top States for DIEGO by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	1,230	3325	0.004	36
Florida	437	6051	0.003	27
Texas	378	6809	0.002	18
New York	207	12337	0.001	11
Illinois	179	9890	0.001	14
Top States for DIEGO by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Hawaii	100	1430	0.008	83
Vermont	33	3905	0.005	54
California	1,230	3325	0.004	36
Florida	437	6051	0.003	27
Arizona	123	6311	0.002	24

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called DIEGO live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called DIEGO represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called DIEGO in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a DIEGO by picking someone at random in Hawaii than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of DIEGO

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Spain

Language of origin: Spanish

Ethnic origin: Iberian

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the DIEGO surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the DIEGO surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of DIEGO in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Caucasian)	475	12.29
Asian/Pacific	375	9.7
Black/African American	103	2.67
Mixed Race	87	2.25
Native American/Alaskan	22	0.57
White (Hispanic)	2,802	72.52

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the DIEGO surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Similar names to DIEGO

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DIEGO.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.