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In the entire world, Даме (Dame , Даме ) is a common gender-neutral given name. The first name Даме is characteristic of Sub-Saharan Africa, particularly Senegal, where it is quite a common boy's name, Cameroon, where it is quite a rare feminine name, and Mauritania, where it is quite a rare epicene name. In absolute terms, it most frequently occurs in Senegal, Indonesia, and Ethiopia. Likewise, Даме is the last name as well as the forename.
Даме is also a name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Dame Eyola , the character from Michael Ende's The Neverending Story; Dame Shirley , the operatic character in the opera Girls of the Golden West by John Adams; Dame Perchuque , the operatic character in the opera Les aventures du roi Pausole by Arthur Honegger; Dame Pliant , the theatrical character in the play "The Alchemist" and Dame Bertha , the operatic character in the opera The Armourer of Nantes by Michael William Balfe, among other works.