Dake
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Dake is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Congo - Kinshasa than in any other country.
- CDCongo - Kinshasa≈1 in 15Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- ALAlbania≈1 in 37K
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 57Kfew records
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 Dake 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.
- Congo - Kinshasa (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 273 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 15K (inferred from the name graph)
≈6,900 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Congo - Kinshasa, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Daeke in NZ New Zealand.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Dake 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | #645 | ≈6,900 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Dake | 1 |
| US United States | — | 3,277 | 1 in 102K | 3.3K | Dake | 273 |
| DZ Algeria | — | ≈750 est. | ≈1 in 57K | — | Dake | 1 |
| IN India | — | 540 | 1 in 2.5M | 540 | Dake | 48 |
| GH Ghana | — | ≈440 est. | ≈1 in 67K | — | Dake | 24 |
| AL Albania | — | ≈83 est. | ≈1 in 37K | 93 | — | — |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈52 est. | ≈1 in 95K | — | Daeke | 4 |
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; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts). 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)Dake is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Japanese, Rōmaji transcription of だけ
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In pon, ride in or on a vehicle
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In gml, fog, mist, haze
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)- Crawley P. Dakeb. 1839CAAmerican lawman
- Charles Romeyn Dakeb. 1849USAmerican writer and physician (1849–1899)
- Arthur Dakeb. 1910USAmerican chess player (1910–2000)
- Terrence R. Dakeb. 1944VNAssistant Commandant of the Marine Corps
- Kyle Dakeb. 1991USAmerican wrestler (born 1991)
- Mawuse DakeGHGhanaian politician and academic
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)19 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3.3K | #9,872 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3.1K | #9,673 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.7K | #11,261 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 1.3K | #2,907 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 540 | #8,693 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 4 | #7,657 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 3 | #56,048 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname 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
- In which country does Dake have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 6.9 thousand people named Dake in Congo - Kinshasa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dake.
- How common is the name Dake?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,277 people named Dake in 2010, about 1 in 102 thousand residents.
- How common is Dake compared with other names?
- In Congo - Kinshasa, Dake is the 645th most common surname of 44,726 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Dake?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/dakeThe 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, “Dake” — the 645th most common surname in Congo - Kinshasa. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.