Given name & surname

Diniz

Diniz is a surname from Portuguese.

Original PortugueseDinis

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Diniz comes from Portuguese.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

From Portuguese Diniz.

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Diniz’s family of names

In Portuguese usage, Diniz has a conventional equivalent in the French form Denis. In Portuguese usage, Diniz has a conventional equivalent in the French form Denys. In Portuguese usage, Diniz has a related form in DINIS.

Walk Diniz’s family in the name graph

DinizDinisDenisDenizDionizyDionigiDénes

Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.

Hover or tab through the constellation to see how each name is related. Bigger dots are names more people in the U.S. share.

Around the world

Diniz has relatives in 4 languages. Lines run from its Portuguese roots to each of them.

PortugueseFrench

Portuguesewhere Diniz comes from · 1 name

Each dot marks where a language is rooted, not where people with the name live today. Bigger dots hold more names. Language locations from Glottolog (CC BY 4.0); map from Natural Earth.

Nicknames & forms 1

Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.

Across languages 6

Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

People named Diniz

Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.

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Portuguese

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Spanish

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Portuguese

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Portuguese

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No U.S. birth series

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Portuguese

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No U.S. birth series

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