Defore
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈdifɔɹ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Defore is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Altered spelling of Dutch de Foor.
- USUnited States1 in 509K(measured from records)
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 15 (measured from records)
- 1 in 509K (inferred from the name graph)
654 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Altered spelling of Dutch de Foor.
Sources 1
Where in the world(measured from records)
Defore 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 654 | 1 in 509K | 712 | Defore | 15 |
| FR France | — | — | — | Defore | 5 |
654 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 2000. 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)
Defore is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latin, future active infinitive of dēsum
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)
- Don DeForeb. 1913USAmerican actor (1913–1993)
- Lee DeForeb. 1944UScollege basketball player (1964–1966) Auburn
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 5 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 712 | #30,868 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 663 | #36,342 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 654 | #34,574 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 Defore mean, and where does it come from?
- Altered spelling of Dutch de Foor. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Defore?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈdifɔɹ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Defore have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 654 people named Defore, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled defore.
- Where is Defore most common?
- Defore is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 509 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Defore?
- In the United States, the national register counted 654 people named Defore in 2010, about 1 in 509 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/deforeThe 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, “Defore”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.