Dé
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in French: die (dice)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Dé is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 230K(inferred from the name graph)
- VCSt. Vincent & Grenadines1 in 14K
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 104K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 474 (measured from records)
- 1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)
1,123 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
St. Vincent & Grenadines
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled De in FR France, US United States, SN Senegal, Dë in CM Cameroon and Dê in DZ Algeria.
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)
Translation of Mogue; also used in Brittany as the name of St De.
Sources 1
- Irish first names
Attested across 31 languages in the etymology graph.
How Dé is read(measured from records)
Dé is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- French38%
die (dice)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish27%
inflection of dar:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Arabic13%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Dé in Arabic.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Dé 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 1,123 | 1 in 296K | 1.6K | De | 418 |
| DZ Algeria | ≈410 est. | ≈1 in 104K | — | Dê | 20 |
| FR France | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 230K | 6 | De | 474 |
| CM Cameroon | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 233K | — | Dë | 30 |
| MA Morocco | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 300K | — | Dé | 51 |
| SN Senegal | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 139K | — | De | 23 |
| FI Finland | 29 | 1 in 192K | 342 | — | 30 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | 7 | 1 in 14K | 23 | — | — |
1,123 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Dé is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Irish, Translation of Mogue; also used in Brittany as the name of St De.
as a nameIrish first names
In cdo, a noise made in calling fowls, a | term for fowls, do iS clever, expert, (sék-cing-gaudo, (dok) , |e ia re a measure, degree, a rule, to pass, d6-cié-bud He Se Board of Finance, (cié-d6)
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
In cdo, name of ancient millionaire, delighted, happy
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
In cdo, REARBE 7 =a stem, a peduncle; a base, (hd
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- De GeleMing dynasty person CBDB = 125103
- De Langperson, CBDB = 161018
- De baoQing dynasty person CBDB = 138503
- De Yuperson, CBDB = 148475
- De Yiperson, CBDB = 154378
- De KuiQing dynasty person CBDB = 69504
- De Chengperson, CBDB ID = 402833
- De Shengperson, CBDB ID = 402834
- De Lianperson, CBDB ID = 402835
- De Enperson, CBDB ID = 402836
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 4 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025) | 2025 | 5 | #142 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025) | 2025 | 2 | #113 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Dé come from?
- Translation of Mogue; also used in Brittany as the name of St De. Recorded by Irish first names.
- What are other forms of the name Dé?
- In the etymology graph, Dado is a form of the same name in other languages.
- What does the name Dé mean?
- In French, die (dice)
- In which country does Dé have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.1 thousand people named Dé, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled de.
- Where is Dé most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Dé is densest in St. Vincent & Grenadines — about 1 in 14 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Dé?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,123 people named Dé in 2010, about 1 in 296 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Dé?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/d%C3%A9The 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, “Dé”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.