Dace

given name · Latin script

Meaning, in English: nickname from the fish, OFr dars; first attested Ralph Dace 1202 AssL

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Dace is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Latvia than in any other country, where it is the 56th most common given name.

rarermore common
  • LVLatvia1 in 190(measured from records)
  • ISIceland1 in 50K
  • NONorway≈1 in 62K

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.

Latvia (measured from records)

9,889 people

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
93 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 190 (inferred from the name graph)

Latvia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

DaceLatin(measured from records)
ДачеCyrillic(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Даче in RU Russia.

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)

nickname from the fish, OFr dars; first attested Ralph Dace 1202 AssL

Sources 1

  • A Dictionary of English Surnames

Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.

How Dace is read(measured from records)

Dace is one spelling over 2 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.

  • Latvian43%

    Sievietes vārds

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

  • English36%

    nickname from the fish, OFr dars; first attested Ralph Dace 1202 AssL

    as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames

    A shoal-forming fish of species Leuciscus leuciscus, common to swift rivers in England and Wales and in Europe.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)

Dace 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.

Where Dace is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
LV Latvia#569,8891 in 1909.9KDace93
US United States—6711 in 496K854Dace87
GB United Kingdom—≈230 est.≈1 in 288K—Dace53
RU Russia—≈150 est.≈1 in 974K—Даче48
NO Norway—≈88 est.≈1 in 62K242Dace14
IE Ireland—≈47 est.≈1 in 109K—Dace15
EE Estonia—≈16 est.≈1 in 78K15Dace3
IS Iceland—71 in 50K7——

9,889 people counted by PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register). 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: PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Dace is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Latvia, United Kingdom, Germany

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written D'Ace, Dacé

  • Spanish given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Latvia, Spain, Philippines

    Also written D'Ace

  • French given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Latvia, United States, Congo - Kinshasa

    Also written D-Ace, D'Ace

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Daçe, Dāce

47 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Dace is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Romanian, nominative/accusative feminine/neuter plural of dac

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Latin, vocative singular of Dācus

    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)

1850190019502000Dace Akmentiņa, b. 1858Dace Slagūne, b. 1946Dace Reinika, b. 1958Dace Bonāte, b. 1959Dace Regža, b. 1962Dace Liepa, b. 1966Dace Rukšāne, b. 1969Dace Melbārde, b. 1971Dace Sietina, b. 1978Dace Ruskule, b. 1981

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).

How to address them(machine-generated)

InformalSveiki Dace,Hi Dace, (English)

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 32 sources across 16 countries.

Official registers attesting Dace
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020854#29,477
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010758#30,735
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000741#29,904
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 4

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Dace mean, and where does it come from?
nickname from the fish, OFr dars; first attested Ralph Dace 1202 AssL Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
Is Dace a male or female name?
Dace is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What are other forms of the name Dace?
In the etymology graph, Dorothy, Dora and Doreen are forms of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Dace have the most bearers?
In Latvia, the national register counted about 9.9 thousand people named Dace, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dace.
Where is Dace most common?
Dace is densest in Latvia, where the national register counts about 1 in 190 people carrying it.
How common is the name Dace?
In Latvia, the national register counted 9,889 people named Dace, about 1 in 190 residents.
How common is Dace compared with other names?
In Latvia, Dace is the 56th most common given name of 11,601 given names recorded there.

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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, “Dace” — the 56th most common given name in Latvia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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