Dais
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A raised platform in a room for a high table, a seat of honour, a throne, or other dignified occupancy, such as ancestral statues; a similar platform supporting a lectern, pulpit, etc., which may be u (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries · latest register: St Kitts & Nevis, 2026
/ˈdeɪs/(recorded in a dictionary) English · from Wiktionary
Dais is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- KNSt. Kitts & Nevis1 in 18K(measured from records)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 70K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 330Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 201 (measured from records)
- 1 in 18K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,700 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
St. Kitts & Nevis
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Dais
- English:/ˈdeɪs/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)A raised platform in a room for a high table, a seat of honour, a throne, or other dignified occupancy, such as ancestral statues; a similar platform supporting a lectern, pulpit, etc., which may be used to speak from.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Dais is found
(measured from records)Dais 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 70K | — | Dais | 20 |
| US United States | 840 | 1 in 396K | 933 | Dais | 201 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 335K | — | Dais | 28 |
| BR Brazil | ≈90 est. | ≈1 in 2.3M | 434 | — | — |
| MY Malaysia | ≈81 est. | ≈1 in 438K | — | Dais | 13 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈23 est. | ≈1 in 124K | — | Dais | 3 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | 3 | 1 in 18K | 3 | — | — |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026. 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)Dais 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.
In Spanish, second-person plural present indicative of dar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Filipino, act of moving closer to another
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In mww, bear (mammal).
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In yol, plural of die
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In roa-cha, finger
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)- Gerd Daisb. 1963DEGerman footballer and manager
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)21 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Dais mean, and where does it come from?
- A raised platform in a room for a high table, a seat of honour, a throne, or other dignified occupancy, such as ancestral statues; a similar platform supporting a lectern, pulpit, etc., which may be u… Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Dais?
- In English /ˈdeɪs/ (Wiktionary).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Dais?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.7 thousand people named Dais in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dais. After it come United States, United Kingdom, Brazil and Malaysia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Dais most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Dais is densest in St. Kitts & Nevis — about 1 in 18 thousand people — even though Philippines holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Dais?
- In the United States, the national register counted 840 people named Dais in 2010, about 1 in 396 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/daisThe 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, “Dais”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.