Dees
surname · Latin script
Meaning: plural of dee, the name of the letter D
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/diːz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Dees is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 31K(measured from records)
- PKPakistan≈1 in 15K
- ISIceland≈1 in 17K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 382 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 15K (inferred from the name graph)
≈26,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Pakistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Dee'S in GH Ghana.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
plural of dee, the name of the letter D.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Dees 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈26,000 est. | ≈1 in 54K | — | Dees | 4 |
| PK Pakistan | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Dees | 1 |
| US United States | 10,887 | 1 in 31K | 11K | Dees | 382 |
| IT Italy | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 52K | — | Dees | 5 |
| GH Ghana | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Dee'S | 6 |
| NL Netherlands | 718 | 1 in 24K | 718 | Dees | 37 |
| IE Ireland | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Dees | 2 |
| IS Iceland | ≈20 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Dees | 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). 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)
Dees 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 enm, alternative form of deis (“dais”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, second-person singular present active imperative/indicative of dēsum
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Dutch, alternative form of deze
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In dum, inflection of dese:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Catalan, plural of dea
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)
- Mary Deesb. 1911USactress (1911-2004)
- Bob Deesb. 1929USAmerican football defensive lineman (1929-1997)
- Benny Deesb. 1934USAmerican basketball player-coach (1934-2021)
- Charlie Deesb. 1935USAmerican baseball player
- Morris Deesb. 1936USAmerican activist
- Archie Deesb. 1936USAmerican basketball player (1936–2016)
- Bill Deesb. 1939USAmerican musician and songwriter (1939-2012)
- Michael Deesb. 1941USAmerican singer and actor
- Sam Deesb. 1945USAmerican soul singer, songwriter and record producer
- Rick Deesb. 1950USAmerican radio personality
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 21 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 11K | #3,299 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 11K | #3,105 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 11K | #3,346 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 718 | #2,519 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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
- What does the name Dees mean, and where does it come from?
- plural of dee, the name of the letter D. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Dees?
- A machine transcription gives /diːz/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Dees have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 26 thousand people named Dees in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dees.
- How common is the name Dees?
- In the United States, the national register counted 10,887 people named Dees in 2010, about 1 in 31 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/deesThe 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, “Dees”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.