Де
surname · Cyrillic script
Meaning, in Russian: says (used informally to mark reported speech)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Де is a surname written in the Cyrillic script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- UZUzbekistan≈1 in 92Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- KZKazakhstan≈1 in 94Kfew records
- KGKyrgyzstan≈1 in 97Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Де itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 113 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 92K (inferred from the name graph)
6,275 named Dee, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Uzbekistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Дё in KZ Kazakhstan, UZ Uzbekistan and Dee in US United States.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)says (used informally to mark reported speech)
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 37 languages in the etymology graph.
How Де is read
(measured from records)Де is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Russian80%
says (used informally to mark reported speech)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Ukrainian14%
where (in what place?)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Де 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 | 6,275as Dee | 1 in 53K | 16K | Dee | 73 |
| RU Russia | ≈740 est. | ≈1 in 195K | — | Де | 113 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 92K | — | Дё | 9 |
| BR Brazil | 262as Dee | 1 in 808K | 4.5K | — | 1 |
| NL Netherlands | 250as Dee | 1 in 69K | 250 | — | 31 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 94K | — | Дё | 26 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | 7as De | 1 in 14K | 23 | — | — |
6,275 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025). 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)Де is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Macedonian, A particle expressing nonchalance, used to emphasize that something is irrelevant, already known, or expected.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Bulgarian, where
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)- De GeleMing dynasty person CBDB = 125103
- De Langperson, CBDB = 161018
- De baoQing dynasty person CBDB = 138503
- De Yuperson, CBDB = 148475
- De Yiperson, CBDB = 154378
- De KuiQing dynasty person CBDB = 69504
- De Chengperson, CBDB ID = 402833
- De Shengperson, CBDB ID = 402834
- De Lianperson, CBDB ID = 402835
- De Enperson, CBDB ID = 402836
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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Де mean, and where does it come from?
- says (used informally to mark reported speech) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Де have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 6.3 thousand people named Dee, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Де?
- In the United States, the national register counted 6,275 people named Dee in 2010, about 1 in 53 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Де?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%D0%B4%D0%B5The 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, “Де”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.