Deß
surname · Latin script
Meaning: obsolete spelling of des (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
Deß is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 360Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 1.1Mas Dess
- CHSwitzerland1 in 2.8Mas Dess
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Deß itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 39 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 358K (inferred from the name graph)
298 named Dess, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Deß in other scripts: Latin
(measured from records)Locally spelled Dess in US United States, IT Italy.
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)obsolete spelling of des
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Deß is found
(measured from records)Deß 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 | 298as Dess | 1 in 1.1M | 298 | Dess | 18 |
| DE Germany | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 358K | — | Deß | 39 |
| CH Switzerland | 3as Dess | 1 in 2.8M | 3 | — | 1 |
| CZ Czechia | 1as Dess | 1 in 11M | 1 | — | — |
| IT Italy | — | — | — | Dess | 9 |
298 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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)Deß is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, obsolete typography of dess (“its”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)- Albert Dessb. 1947DEGerman politician
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)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Deß mean, and where does it come from?
- obsolete spelling of des Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Deß?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 298 people named Dess, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Germany, Switzerland and Czechia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Deß?
- In the United States, the national register counted 298 people named Dess in 2010, about 1 in 1.1 million residents.
What do you want to know about Deß?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/de%C3%9FThe 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, “Deß” — ranked 66371st in the United States (Census Bureau, 2010). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.