Dís
surname · Latin script
Meaning: goddess, fairy; dis
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Dís is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- INIndia1 in 2.7K(measured from records)
- ISIceland≈1 in 194K
- ARArgentina1 in 989K
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.
- India (measured from records)
- Sources
- 13 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.7K (inferred from the name graph)
486,773 people
Highest-authority source
India
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
goddess, fairy; dis
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Dís 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | — | 486,773 | 1 in 2.7K | 487K | — | — |
| AR Argentina | — | 46 | 1 in 989K | 46 | — | — |
| PL Poland | — | 6 | 1 in 6.4M | 6 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | — | 3 | 1 in 2.8M | 3 | — | 1 |
| IS Iceland | #603 | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 194K | 11 | Dís | 12 |
486,773 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
Dís 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 Faroese, goddess, nymph; dis
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Irish, two; pair, couple
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In tli, moon
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 7 sources across 3 countries.
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name 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 Dís mean, and where does it come from?
- goddess, fairy; dis Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How common is the name Dís?
- In India, the national register counted 486,773 people named Dís, about 1 in 2.7 thousand residents.
- How common is Dís compared with other names?
- In Iceland, Dís is the 603rd most common surname of 9,400 surnames recorded there.
- In which country does Dís have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 487 thousand people named Dís, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Dís most common?
- Dís is densest in India, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.7 thousand people carrying it.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/d%C3%ADsThe 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, “Dís” — the 603rd most common surname in Iceland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.