Diallo

At the 2020 census, 12,454 Americans bore the surname Diallo — 2,813th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 24,000.

By the numbers

People: 12,454
Rank: 2,813th
How common: 1 in 24,000
Per 100,000: 4.2

Where the name comes from

Origin French, from Fula

Borrowed from French Diallo, in turn from ff, possibly jalo (“hoe”).

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

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Diallo described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Black, not Hispanic 94.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.3%
White, not Hispanic 1.6%
Hispanic or Latino 0.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.08%

Notable people called Diallo

Amad Diallo (born 2002)Ivorian association football player
Abdou Diallo (born 1996)French-Senegalese footballer
Abdoulaye Diallo (born 1992)Senegalese and French footballer (born March 1992)
Mouhamadou Diallo (born 1995)Senegalese association football player
Cellou Dalein Diallo (born 1952)Guinean politician
Omar Diallo (born 1972)Senegalese footballer
Rokhaya Diallo (born 1978)French journalist
Mamadou Diallo (born 1971)Senegalese footballer

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

Surnames like Diallo

Also a first name

Diallo has been given to 811 American babies as a first name since 1971, peaking in 1972. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.