Dède
surname · Latin script
Dède is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Togo than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Ottoman Turkish دده (dede), from Proto-Oghuz [Term?] (baba, dede), from baby talk like many other words for close family.
- FRFrance≈1 in 118K(inferred from the name graph)
- TGTogo≈1 in 3.2K
- ALAlbania1 in 9.7K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Togo (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 170 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,700 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Togo, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Dede in FR France, US United States, TG Togo and 2 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)- Ottoman Turkishددهdede(measured from records)
- Proto-Oghuz[Term?]baba(measured from records)
From Ottoman Turkish دده (dede), from Proto-Oghuz [Term?] (baba, dede), from baby talk like many other words for close family.
Cited for this meaning 4
- The African book of names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
- Wiktionary
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Dède counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TG Togo | #358 | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 3.2K | 2 | Dede | 8 |
| US United States | — | 1,718 | 1 in 194K | 1.6K | Dede | 53 |
| FR France | — | ≈570 est. | ≈1 in 118K | 58 | Dede | 170 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | — | ≈470 est. | ≈1 in 215K | — | Dede | 6 |
| AL Albania | — | 318 | 1 in 9.7K | 315 | — | — |
| CM Cameroon | — | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 155K | — | Dede | 2 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); Journal Officiel — Liste definitive des candidats (legislatives 2024). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Dède mean, and where does it come from?
- From Ottoman Turkish دده (dede), from Proto-Oghuz [Term?] (baba, dede), from baby talk like many other words for close family. Recorded by The African book of names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 2 other sources.
- In which country does Dède have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.7 thousand people named Dède in Togo, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dede.
- How common is the name Dède?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,718 people named Dède in 2020, about 1 in 194 thousand residents.
- How common is Dède compared with other names?
- In Togo, Dède is the 358th most common given name of 1,075 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/d%C3%A8deThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Dède” — the 358th most common given name in Togo. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.