How common is the surname Diem?

1,771 people in the United States had the surname Diem in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 174,334 Americans. It ranked 16,284th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Diem?

In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Diem identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.9% as Asian and Pacific Islander.

Is the surname Diem getting more or less common?

More common. 1,754 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,771 in 2010, up 1.0%.

The surname Diem

A surname, carried by 1,771 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex D500

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Diem is more common than 90% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,771 people named Diem in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 174,334 Americans. That is up 1.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,754.

#16,284

rank among US surnames

1,771

people in 2010

0.6

per 100,000 Americans

+1%

change since 2000 (was #15,364)

Who is named Diem

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

93% of people named Diem identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.9% as Asian and Pacific Islander and 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 93%
Asian and Pacific Islander 2.9%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.0%
Two or more races 1.4%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Diem

Diem has the Soundex code D500, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code D500.

Questions

How common is the surname Diem?: 1,771 people in the United States had the surname Diem in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 174,334 Americans. It ranked 16,284th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Diem?: In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Diem identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.9% as Asian and Pacific Islander.
Is the surname Diem getting more or less common?: More common. 1,754 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,771 in 2010, up 1.0%.