Deus
surname · Latin script
Meaning: god; deity
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/dewʃ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Deus is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Tanzania than in any other country. In Timor-Leste it is the 26th most common surname.
- PTPortugal≈1 in 10K(inferred from the name graph)
- BRBrazil≈1 in 21K
- ESSpain1 in 80K
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.
- Tanzania (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 146 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈41,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Tanzania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
god; deity
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Deus 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TZ Tanzania | — | ≈41,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | 1 | Deus | 18 |
| BR Brazil | #227 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 21K | 247 | Deus | 146 |
| AO Angola | #204 | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Deus | 20 |
| PT Portugal | #476 | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Deus | 74 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈980 est. | ≈1 in 112K | — | Deus | 14 |
| ES Spain | — | 628 | 1 in 80K | 628 | Deus | 65 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 488 | 1 in 6.9K | 488 | Deus | 29 |
| TL Timor-Leste | #26 | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 204K | — | Deus | 7 |
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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); INEC Special Gazette 2021 — 2020 parliamentary election results. 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)
Deus is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Latin for 'God'
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In Catalan, plural of deu (“tens”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In pro, nominative singular of Deu
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Basque, anything
as a wordTrask, Etymological Dictionary of Basque (2008 posthumous draft)
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)
- Beny Deusb. 1919ESSpanish actor (1919–1989)
- Pedro Barbosa de Deusb. 1945BRBrazilian businessman and politician, former secretary of agriculture of the state of Bahia
- Gerson de Deusb. 1949BRBrazilian doctor and politician, former mayor of Sapeaçú
- Jan Deusb. 1952CZCzech athlete
- David Roasb. 1965ESnot in their usual nameSpanish writer
- Martín Deusb. 1979ARArgentine director
- Nayara de Deusb. 1984BRBrazilian journalist, television presenter, reporter and eventual actress
- Pedro Miguelb. 1990PTnot in their usual nameQatari association football player
- Rodrigo Deusb. 1997UYUruguayan basketball player (born 1997)
- Antônio de Pádua de Deus AndradeBRBrazilian politician
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 41 sources across 26 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 84K | #315 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 628 | #6,652 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 628 | #6,650 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 488 | — |
| TZ Tanzania | INEC Special Gazette 2021 — 2020 parliamentary election results | 2020 | 1 | #12 |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Deus mean, and where does it come from?
- god; deity Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Deus?
- A machine transcription gives /dewʃ/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- In which country does Deus have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 41 thousand people named Deus in Tanzania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled deus.
- How common is the name Deus?
- In Spain, the national register counted 628 people named Deus, about 1 in 80 thousand residents.
- How common is Deus compared with other names?
- In Timor-Leste, Deus is the 26th most common surname of 2,973 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/deusThe 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, “Deus” — the 26th most common surname in Timor-Leste. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.