He name of a person is one of its greatest hallmarks, because although there may be thousands of men or women with the same name, the name will always be a characteristic seal of each individual. And if it’s about names, that of Diego is one that in Mexico is frequently used.
If you are about to name your little one and you intend to call him that, you may want to know his meaningwhich we share below.
What does the name Diego mean?
Although the name of Diego is very popular in MexicoIts origin goes back to Greece. It comes from the Greek “didachós” which means “educated”, “instructed” or “wise”.
It’s about a name that for many years it was carried by men who later became saints and that, before long, many of them were canonized.
One of the most famous Diegos is San Diego de Alcalá, an evangelizing Franciscan who lived during the fifteenth century in the Canary Islands, who earned money by making wooden sculptures. According to the legend around this character, during an epidemic the bottles he had with medicine were not emptied, so he managed to relieve many sick people.
There is also the idea that Diego It is a hypocoristic of Santiago, that is, an abbreviation or diminutive of Santiago, this by means of the evolution of the name to its medieval forms such as Tiago and Sant Yago.
In August 2022, the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (Inegi) revealed the top 10 most used names in Mexico, a ranking where Diego It was ranked number 7 on the list of names for boys and which 20,000 men had until that date.
One of the most famous men in Mexico with that name was Diego Rivera, a realist painter and muralist, born on December 8, 1886, in Guanajuato, who managed to capture his art in iconic buildings in Mexico City, as well as in other Latin American cities and the United States, a man who was married to the also painter Frida Khalo.