Diego

Diego is the 5,380th most common surname in the United States, shared by 6,257 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 47,800.

By the numbers

People: 6,257
Rank: 5,380th
How common: 1 in 47,800
Per 100,000: 2.1

Who bears the name

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

Hispanic or Latino 79.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 8.8%
White, not Hispanic 7.3%
Black, not Hispanic 3.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 1.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Diego

Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin (1474–1548)Layperson. Visionary of Our Lady of Guadalupe. First indigenous saint of the Americas. Roman Catholic Saint from Mexico.
Gerardo Diego (1896–1987)Spanish poet
Juan Diego (1942–2022)Spanish actor
Gabino Diego (born 1966)Spanish actor
Fernando de Diego (1919–2005)Spanish esperantist, journalist and linguist

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

Surnames like Diego

Also a first name

Diego has been given to 126,405 American babies as a first name since 1887, peaking in 2006. 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.