How common is the surname Diab?

1,400 people in the United States had the surname Diab in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 220,533 Americans. It ranked 19,334th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Diab?

In the 2010 Census, 83% of people named Diab identified as white (not Hispanic), and 7.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Diab getting more or less common?

More common. 1,084 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,400 in 2010, up 29%.

The surname Diab

A surname, carried by 1,400 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex D100

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Diab is more common than 88.1% of them.

Origin

Arabic surname, probably from ذئب (“wolf”).

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,400 people named Diab in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 220,533 Americans. That is up 29% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,084.

#19,334

rank among US surnames

1,400

people in 2010

0.5

per 100,000 Americans

+29.2%

change since 2000 (was #22,212)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#19,334	Assad	1,400	220,533
#19,341	Knapik	1,399	220,690

Who is named Diab

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

83% of people named Diab identified as white (not Hispanic), 7.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 5.1% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 83%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 7.9%
Two or more races 5.1%
Black (not Hispanic) 2.2%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Diab

Diab has the Soundex code D100, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code D100.

Questions

Where does the surname Diab come from?: Arabic surname, probably from ذئب (“wolf”).
How common is the surname Diab?: 1,400 people in the United States had the surname Diab in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 220,533 Americans. It ranked 19,334th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Diab?: In the 2010 Census, 83% of people named Diab identified as white (not Hispanic), and 7.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Diab getting more or less common?: More common. 1,084 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,400 in 2010, up 29%.