Given name
Diogenes
“an honest man”
Diogenes is used as a given name. One Greek interpretation is “an honest man.”
Original Ancient GreekΔιογένης
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Greek interpretation is “an honest man.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Greek.
How it developed
From Latin Diogenēs, from Ancient Greek Διογένης.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1970. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Diogenes through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 153
- 153 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1991
- 10 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 7 in 2011. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,148 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Diogenes’s family of names
Diogenes has a short form in Dion. Diogenes has a related form in Dyogenes. In English usage, Diogenes has a conventional equivalent in the Ancient Greek form Διογένης.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 4
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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