Diehl

18,120 people in the United States were counted with the surname Diehl in the 2020 census, making it the 1,944th most common in the country. That is about one person in 16,500.

By the numbers

People: 18,120
Rank: 1,944th
How common: 1 in 16,500
Per 100,000: 6.1

Where the name comes from

From the German surname, from personal names deriving from the base Diet- (such as the first element of Dietrich), eventually from Proto-West Germanic *þeudu (“people”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 92.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.9%
Hispanic or Latino 2.7%
Black, not Hispanic 0.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Diehl

August Diehl (born 1976)German actor
John Diehl (born 1950)American actor
Charles Diehl (1859–1944)French Byzantinist
Ella Diehl (born 1978)badminton player
Karl Ludwig Diehl (1896–1958)German actor

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

Surnames like Diehl

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.