Diep
A surname with likely Dutch or North German roots, probably from a place-name or a word meaning “deep.”
The #5,636 most common surname in the United States (2010 Census) — about 1 in every 50,056 Americans shares it.
Etymology
The surname Diep is most likely connected to the Dutch and Low German word for “deep,” or to a place-name formed from that word. In surname use, such forms often began as locational names for someone from a place near a deep waterway, hollow, or other low-lying feature. The exact source is not secure from the evidence here, so the name should be treated as probably Germanic and topographic or locational in origin.
History
The surname is found today in the United States, but the historical excerpts supplied do not discuss it directly as a family name. Because the form is short and Germanic, it may reflect Dutch or North German immigration, or an older place-based surname carried into English-speaking countries. No notable historical bearer is identifiable from the excerpts provided.
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Fun fact
In Dutch, diep still means “deep,” which makes this one of those surnames that is also an ordinary modern word.
From the historical record
“compte de Grammont, but I beleeve this letter will come sooner to your handes, for he goes by the way of Diep with his wife and family; and now that I have named her, I cannot chuse but again desire you to be kinde to ner, for oesides the meritt her family has on both sides, she is as good a creature as ever lived.…”
— The Scottish Nation, vol. 2