San Diego

See also: Sandiego

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish San Diego (literally “Saint Didacus”). Diego is a name on itself not a diminutive of anything as previously identified here as: Santiago (“Saint James”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌsæn diˈeɪɡoʊ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Proper noun

San Diego

1. A city, the county seat of San Diego County, California, United States.
   • 2023 June 8, Richard Collett, “He ran out of countries to visit, so he created his own”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     “I like to put it simply,” says Randy “R Dub!” Williams, a late-night “slow jams” DJ from San Diego who’s also known as “the Sultan of Slowjamastan.” “I ran out of countries, so I created my own.”

   • 2025 May 30, Mark Sternfield, “Trump administration targets California ‘sanctuary’ cities, counties”, in KTLA‎^[2], archived from the original on 8 June 2025:

     The California counties include Alameda, Los Angeles, Sacramento, San Diego, San Francisco, San Bernardino, Ventura and others. Cities include Los Angeles, Oakland, San Francisco, San Diego, San Jose, Long Beach, Malibu, Culver City and Huntington Beach (see the full list below).

2. A city, the county seat of Duval County, Texas, United States.
3. Any of several other places also named after Saint Diego.

Derived terms

• San Angeles
• San Diegan
• San Diego County
• San Diego-Tijuana

Related terms

• Santiago

Translations

city in southwest California

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 聖迭戈 / 圣迭戈 (Shèngdiégē), 聖地牙哥 / 圣地牙哥 (zh) (Shèngdìyágē) (Taiwan)

• Japanese: サンディエゴ (Sandiego)
• Khmer: សាន់ឌីអេហ្គោ (sandiiʼeegoo), សានឌីហ្គោ (saandiihkoo)
• Kumeyaay: Tepacul Watai
• Latin: Didacopolis f, Urbs Sancti Didaci
• Luiseño: Pushuyi
• Marathi: सॅन डिएगो (sĕn ḍiego)

Anagrams

• agonised, diagnose

Japanese

Romanization

San Diego

1. Rōmaji transcription of サンディエゴ

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌsan ˈdjeɡo/ [ˌsãn̪ ˈd̪je.ɣ̞o]
• Syllabification: San Die‧go

Proper noun

San Diego m

1. Saint Didacus
2. any of several places named after him, such as San Diego, California

Derived terms

• sandiegano (“San Diegan”)

Related terms

• Iago
• Jacome
• Jaime

References

Wikipedia:San Diego Wikipedia:Didacus of Alcalá

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish San Diego (“St. James”).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˌsan diˈeɡo/ [ˌsan̪ ˈd͡ʒɛː.ɣo]
  • IPA^(key): (no palatal assimilation) /ˌsan diˈeɡo/ [ˌsan̪ ˈd̪jɛː.ɣo]
• Rhymes: -eɡo
• Syllabification: San Di‧e‧go

Proper noun

San Diego (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜈ᜔ ᜇᜒᜌᜒᜄᜓ)

1. (biblical) Saint James

   Synonym: Santiago

2. a Christian surname from Spanish
3. several locations in the Philippines named after St. James

Statistics

According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, San Diego is the 309^th most common surname in the Philippines, occurring in 25,520 individuals.