A surname of the northern Di peoples, later a noble family in the Tang dynasty.
Why it scores this way
Easy to say96
Reads the way it looks for an English speaker — no sounds English doesn't have.
Recognised in China45
Outside the top 100 — distinctive, but some people will ask you to repeat or write it.
Easy to write85
7 strokes — one of the simpler surnames to write and sign.
People who carried this name
Di Renjie — Tang dynasty judge (630–700), celebrated in the detective novel Dee Goong An.
Di Qing — Di Qing (1008-1057), Northern Song general, rose from a common soldier to marshal. He suppressed the Nong Zhigao rebellion and defended the border against Western Xia.
Di Jianmo — Di Jianmo, a Tang-dynasty official, served as Censor-in-Chief, known for uprightness and fearless remonstration, a great-grandson of Di Renjie.