Diego (name)

Diego is a Spanish male given name . It also appears as a family name .

Origin of name

Diego is derived from the originally Hebrew male given name Jakob , more precisely from James the Elder , who was called Sant Yago and then Santiago in medieval Spanish. Santiago was interpreted into Sandiago through a linguistic process known as Sandhi and then interpreted as San Diago and San Diego. There was a similar process in Spanish and Portuguese with the name Telmo , which is derived from Sant Elmo .

The forms Sant Yago, Diago and Diego have been handed down in parallel from the Middle Ages:

• “Et fue a casa del Rey. e mostrolo a don diago que era adelantado del Rey "(Fuero de Burgos, approx. 1240 [1] )
• "[...] maestro de la cavalleria de Sant Yago et de la dita order [...]" (letter from James II dated 1300), PDF .
• The father of the cid was called Diego Laínez.

Another Spanish form of the name Jakob is, besides Santiago, also Jaime (from Latin Iacomus ).

See also: Didacus , Didakus , Thiago (first name)

Name bearer

First name

• Diego de Acebo († 1207; also Didactus ), Spanish Cistercian monk and Bishop of Osma
• San Diego de Alcalá ( Didacus; ~ 1400–1463), Spanish lay brother and missionary
• Diego de Almagro (~ 1479–1538), Spanish adventurer and conquistador
• Diego de Almagro el Mozo (1520–1542), Spanish conquistador and captain general
• Diego of Austria (Spanish: Diego de Austria; 1575–1582), as the Spanish heir to the throne, Prince of Asturias
• Diego Baldenweg (* 1979), Australian film music composer
• Diego Benaglio (* 1983), Swiss football goalkeeper
• Diego Costa (* 1988), Brazilian football player (including Atlético Madrid )
• Diego Domínguez (* 1966), Argentine-Italian rugby player
• Diego Dominguez (* 1991), Spanish actor and dancer
• Diego Fabbrini (* 1990), Italian football player
• Diego Forlán (* 1979), Uruguayan football player (including Manchester United , Villarreal FC , Atlético Madrid , Inter Milan )
• Diego Fuser (* 1968), Italian football player
• Diego Columbus (navigator) (1468–1515), brother of Christopher Columbus
• Diego Columbus (viceroy) (1478 / 1479–1526), ​​eldest son of Columbus, admiral and viceroy
• Diego León (* 1984), Spanish soccer player
• Diego Maradona (* 1960), Argentinian football player (including FC Barcelona , SSC Napoli , FC Sevilla , 1986 world champion) and coach
• Diego Martínez Penas (* 1980), Spanish football player and coach
• Diego Morais (* 1983), Brazilian soccer player (including Hansa Rostock )
• Diego Pozo (* 1978), Argentinian football goalkeeper
• Diego Ribas da Cunha (* 1985), Brazilian soccer player, see Diego (soccer player)
• Diego Rivera (1886–1957), Mexican painter and husband of Frida Kahlo
• Diego Rolán (* 1993), Uruguayan football player
• Diego Tardelli (* 1985), Brazilian football player (including PSV Eindhoven )
• Diego Valdés (* 1994), Chilean football player
• Diego Velázquez (1599–1660), Spanish painter
• Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar (1465–1524), Spanish conqueror of Cuba
• Juan Diego , saint of the Roman Catholic Church
• Juan Diego Flórez (* 1973), Peruvian opera singer

family name

• Alex Diego (* 1985), Mexican soccer player
• Daniel García Diego (* 1983), Spanish jazz musician
• Gerardo Diego (1896–1987), Spanish writer
• José de Diego (1866–1918), Puerto Rican poet, journalist and politician
• Sun Diego (* 1989; Dmitrij Aleksandrovic Chpakov ), German rapper

Fictional characters

• Don Diego de la Vega , the real name of Zorro in the novel and in the film
• Diego , a saber-toothed tiger (Smilodon) in the animated films Ice Age
• Diego , an NPC in the computer game series Gothic
• Diego Armando , a criminal defense attorney from the third installment in the Ace Attorney series

Web links

Wiktionary: Diego  - explanations of meanings, origins of words, synonyms, translations

• Diego on en.wiktionary.org (Engl.)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Diego on behindthename.com (Engl.)