de Diego and Diego can also be found as surnames. The form DiГ©guez is much less common Diegues can be found in Portuguese-speaking countries. Like many patronymics, these have become common surnames in Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking regions.

The patronymic for Diego is DГaz in Castillian (used for example by Rodrigo DГaz de Vivar, better known as El Cid) and Dias in Portuguese. The city of San Diego was named for the flagship of SebastiГЎn VizcaГno (1602), which was itself named for Didacus of AlcalГЎ (d. 1207), are recorded as Didacus in contemporary sources.Дiego becomes the standard form of the name in the 14th century, and it is frequently given in the 16th century, e.g. Medieval bearers of the name, such as Diego de Acebo (d. It has been argued on metrical grounds that the name Diego in the Cantar represents an original DГago. The name Diego Gonzalez is given to a character in the Cantar de mio Cid, a poem of the 12th century. Its original derivation from Didacus is uncertain, among other things because the shift from -Гa- to -iГ©- is unexplained (Becker 2009:386).

The form Diego is first recorded in the late 11th century. Д«ecker (2009) argues against possible derivation from the Greek name Diadochus,Д«ut also against suggestions of Basque and Celtic derivations.Дidacus is recorded in the forms Diaco, Diago in the 10th century. The oldest record for Didacus according to Floriano (1949) dates to 747, with numerous further records during the 9th century. The name Didacus, while unattested in anqituity, predates the earliest record of the form Diego.

Malkiel (1975) calls the equation an 'odd couple' ( extraГ±a pareja). In the later 20th century, the traditional identification of Diego= Jacobo has come to be seen as untenable. a name Didacus, Diego of unknown origin would at a later time have been identified with Jacobo, is made by Buchholtz (1894), even though this possibility is judged as improbable by the author himself. The suggestion that this identification may be folk etymological, i.e. This has been the standard interpretation of the name since at least the 19th century, it is so reported by Robert Southey (1808) The name has long been interpreted as reanalysis of Santiago, from older Sant Yago 'Saint Jacob,' in English known as Saint James, as San-Tiago.

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