Given name & surname · also Old Galician-Portuguese
Diogo
“he who supplants”
Diogo is a form of Diego. In Spanish use, Diego carries the interpretation “he who supplants.”
Original LatinDidacus
Meaning & origin
What it means
Diogo is a form of Diego. In Spanish use, Diego carries the interpretation “he who supplants.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Diogo comes from Old Galician-Portuguese, and ultimately from Latin.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Old Galician-Portuguese Diago, from Latin Didacus.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2001. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Diogo through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 451
- 451 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2004
- 67 babies
- 2025
- 10
- #7,807 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +47%
- Rising
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 10 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 7,807 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 67 in 2004. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,006 as a first name in 2020; 364 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Diogo’s family of names
In Portuguese usage, Diogo shares a linguistic root with the Spanish form Diego. In Portuguese usage, Diogo has a conventional equivalent in the English form James. Diogo is a form of Diego.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Diogo has relatives in 8 languages. Lines run from its Latin roots to each of them.
Latinwhere Diogo comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 1
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 11
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Didacusolder form · Latin
- JamesEnglish
- SantiagoSpanish
- Jacobequivalent
- Thiagoequivalent
- Diegocognate · Polish, English
- Tiagoequivalent
- GiacomoItalian
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See also 2
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Diogo
- Diogo JotaPortuguese footballer (1996-2025)
- Diogo CãoPortuguese explorer1452–1486
- Diogo CostaPortuguese footballer (born 1999)
- Diogo Freitas do AmaralPortuguese politician (1941-2019)
- Diogo DiasPortuguese explorer1450–1500
- Diogo OliveiraBrazilian association football playerborn 1986
- Diogo FigueirasPortuguese footballerborn 1991
- Diogo MorgadoPortuguese film and television actor and former modelborn 1981
- Diogo Lopes de SequeiraGovernor of Portuguese India1465–1530
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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