Fun Facts About the Name Diallo
- 811 babies named Diallo: U.S. records list 811 babies given the name Diallo from 1880 through 2025. Even 5 girls received the name Diallo - about 1 girl for every 161 boys.
What Does the Name Diallo Mean?
Diallo is a West African name, used mainly as an inherited surname among the Fula people, who are also called Fulani or Peul. A reliable literal meaning is not documented. Unlike names formed from an everyday word in Fula (also called Pulaar or Fulfulde) or Arabic, Diallo does not have a recoverable translation that scholars agree on; it functions as a lineage or clan name rather than as a descriptive word.
The spelling varies with the European language of the region where it is written. Diallo is the French-based form common in Senegal, Guinea, and Mali. Forms such as Jallow and Djalo are sometimes treated as the same Fula name written in other orthographies, but this equivalence is assumed more often than it is demonstrated, and similar-looking names do not always share one origin.
Diallo Name History & Origins
The Fula are a widely spread people of West Africa, and surnames such as Diallo traveled with Fula communities through pastoral migration, trade, and Islamic scholarship. The name is especially associated with two historic Fula centers: Futa Toro, along the Senegal River valley in Senegal and Mauritania, and Futa Jallon, the highlands of Guinea. It is also found in Mali, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, and among Fula communities in Niger and Nigeria.
Because the name is carried by a large and scattered population, it appears in several national spellings, and someone named Diallo may trace family origins to more than one part of the region. In the twentieth and twenty-first centuries the name spread with West African emigration to Europe, especially France, and to North America. Among well-known bearers are the Guinean politician Cellou Dalein Diallo and Amadou Diallo, a Guinean immigrant whose death in New York in 1999 became widely known. The name is also occasionally used as a given name, as with the American actor and writer Diallo Riddle.
How Popular is the Name Diallo?
Diallo recorded its highest annual U.S. birth count in 1972. Its best rank was #917 in 1972.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1972 | #8,596 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #7,804 | 10 | 0.0006% |
| 2024 | #6,910 | 12 | 0.0007% |
| 2023 | #9,125 | 8 | 0.0005% |
| 2022 | #11,216 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 2021 | #9,032 | 8 | 0.0005% |
| 2019 | #7,776 | 10 | 0.0006% |
| 2018 | #9,935 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 2016 | #8,314 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 2015 | #8,952 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 2014 | #9,904 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 2013 | #11,089 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 2012 | #12,745 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2011 | #6,027 | 14 | 0.0007% |
| 2010 | #7,733 | 10 | 0.0005% |
| 2009 | #8,470 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 2008 | #11,428 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 2007 | #4,858 | 19 | 0.0009% |
| 2006 | #4,914 | 18 | 0.0009% |
| 2005 | #4,683 | 18 | 0.0009% |
| 2004 | #3,900 | 23 | 0.0012% |
| 2003 | #4,475 | 18 | 0.0009% |
| 2002 | #3,206 | 28 | 0.0014% |
| 2001 | #3,007 | 30 | 0.0015% |
| 2000 | #3,448 | 24 | 0.0012% |
| 1999 | #3,128 | 26 | 0.0014% |
| 1998 | #2,876 | 28 | 0.0015% |
| 1997 | #4,732 | 13 | 0.0007% |
| 1996 | #2,856 | 26 | 0.0014% |
| 1995 | #3,910 | 16 | 0.0008% |
| 1994 | #3,251 | 21 | 0.0011% |
| 1993 | #4,516 | 13 | 0.0007% |
| 1992 | #4,166 | 14 | 0.0007% |
| 1991 | #5,629 | 9 | 0.0004% |
| 1990 | #8,464 | 5 | 0.0002% |
| 1989 | #7,219 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 1980 | #5,707 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 1979 | #3,633 | 11 | 0.0006% |
| 1978 | #4,256 | 8 | 0.0005% |
| 1977 | #2,482 | 18 | 0.0011% |
| 1976 | #1,841 | 27 | 0.0017% |
| 1975 | #1,566 | 33 | 0.0021% |
| 1974 | #1,479 | 35 | 0.0022% |
| 1973 | #1,189 | 48 | 0.0031% |
| 1972 | #917 | 76 | 0.0047% |
| 1971 | #1,115 | 54 | 0.0031% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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