Dae
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Initialism of does anyone/anybody else...?
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈdeɪ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Dae is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Korea than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 204K(measured from records)
- KRSouth Korea≈1 in 6.9Kas 대우
- KPNorth Korea≈1 in 4.6K
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 Dae itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- South Korea (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 204 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈7,600 named 대우, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
North Korea, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
Initialism of does anyone/anybody else...?.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Dae 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KR South Korea | #910 | ≈7,600 est. | ≈1 in 6.9K | 669 | Dae | 152 |
| KP North Korea | #530 | ≈5,600 est. | ≈1 in 4.6K | — | Dae | 17 |
| CN China | — | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 646K | — | Dae | 21 |
| US United States | — | 1,628 | 1 in 204K | 1.3K | Dae | 204 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈410 est. | ≈1 in 93K | — | Dae | 36 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 115K | 1 | — | 1 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 117K | listed | — | 1 |
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: KOSIS 2015 Census — surname population with hanja variants; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present). 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)
Dae is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Grandeza
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
In Khmer, pv, ever, already (especially in negative or interrogative sentences). E x .: CClTinfunJC5l CC\J&finSl]nHyC5? Did you ever visit Kompong Cham?
as a wordHeadley, Cambodian-English Dictionary, Volume I (ក-ភ)
In cdo, to run a charitable society, to manage satisfactorily
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
In cdo, to hand in one’s name, one year following another
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
In nkr, guts, intestines; buttocks
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
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)
- André Dae Kimb. 1996CACanadian actor and writer
- Dae Won ParkKRresearcher (ORCID 0000-0002-7653-686X)
- Dae Hong JeongKRresearcher (ORCID 0000-0001-7869-5648)
- Dae Hyun LeeUSresearcher
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 30 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 204 | #95,802 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 179 | #94,676 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 171 | #104,602 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Dae mean, and where does it come from?
- Initialism of does anyone/anybody else...?. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Dae?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈdeɪ/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Dae a male or female name?
- Dae is a male 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.
- In which country does Dae have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 7.5 thousand people named 대우 in South Korea, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Dae?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,628 people named Dae in 2020, about 1 in 204 thousand residents.
- How common is Dae compared with other names?
- In South Korea, Dae is the 910th most common given name of 67,037 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Dae?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/daeThe 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, “Dae” — the 910th most common given name in South Korea. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.