De
loc · Latin script
Meaning: Northern Liberia: people who speak a Kru dialect; also called Dewoi or Do (African Names)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 44 countries · latest register: Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines, 2025
/de/(recorded in a dictionary) Spanish · from Wiktionary
De is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country. De is also written Дэ in Cyrillic.
- NLNetherlands≈1 in 1.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- ITItaly≈1 in 8.9Kfew records
- VCSt. Vincent & Grenadines1 in 14K
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.
- Netherlands (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 527 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈17,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Netherlands, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
De in other scripts: Cyrillic
(measured from records)Locally spelled Dé in US United States and Dë in EC Ecuador.
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.
How to pronounce De
- Spanish:/de/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Northern Liberia: people who speak a Kru dialect; also called Dewoi or Do.
Cited for this meaning 1
- African Names
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname De is found
(measured from records)De 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | 19 | — | 178 |
| IT Italy | ≈6,700 est. | ≈1 in 8.9K | — | De | 205 |
| AO Angola | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | De | 78 |
| US United States | 1,123 | 1 in 296K | 1.6K | Dé | 527 |
| CO Colombia | ≈620 est. | ≈1 in 85K | — | De | 236 |
| EC Ecuador | ≈460 est. | ≈1 in 40K | 1 | Dë | 127 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | 7 | 1 in 14K | 23 | — | — |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024); Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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)De 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, The name of the Latin-script letter D/d.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, De Giglio see Lilly De Gioia see Joy De Giorgi see George Vars.: Deegin, D(u)jgan, Deighan, Deehan, Dig(g)in; Duffin. Dims.: O’Duigenain, Duignan, D(u)ignam, Di(e)gnan, Dignen (Gael. 6 Duibhgeannain). De Giovanni see John De Giuli see Julio Deeken see Derrick Deeker see Ditch Degli Abati see Abbe
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
In Akan, V, to open wide (gd^nky^m ade n'anom' rebekAme; de kotoku no ano, na m6mfa ntrama no mfnnu mu); to extend; wotwa (mpasOa) dee mu, they extended their lines for fighting, ranged the battle; syn, terew; cf, dede
as a wordDictionary of the Asante and Fante Language called Tshi (Chwee, Twi)
In Akan, dee, dea, profi. put instead of a previous noun //*r. atle, thingJGT,%Q2. me de, mine, also my party my portion; yende, oitrs&c
as a wordDictionary of the Asante and Fante Language called Tshi (Chwee, Twi)
In Akan, wobetraH ho (= wiase ha) mf. ara ni na woreuye adwuma hi? — 3. [== mfe a ensa] years tJiol have no end, always, for ever
as a wordDictionary of the Asante and Fante Language called Tshi (Chwee, Twi)
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)- Gan Deb. 4004th-century BC Chinese astronomer and astrologer
- Zhu Deb. 1886CNMarshal of the People's Republic of China (1886－1976)
- Otto Braunb. 1900DEnot in their usual nameGerman communist writer (1900–1974)
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)61 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 44 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name De mean, and where does it come from?
- Northern Liberia: people who speak a Kru dialect; also called Dewoi or Do. Recorded by African Names.
- How do you pronounce De?
- In Spanish /de/ (Wiktionary).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname De?
- Mondonomo estimates about 17 thousand people named De in the Netherlands, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Italy, Angola, United States and Colombia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name De?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,123 people named De in 2010, about 1 in 296 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about De?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/deThe 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, “De” — ranked 12096th in the Netherlands (Meertens NVB). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.