Dâý
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Dâý is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 105,091 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): widespread in England. occupational name from Middle English day(e), dey(e) ‘dairy maid’, sometimes ‘a woman who keeps cows and other farm stock’ (compare the 1221 example). Dâý is also written 데이 in Korean (Hangul).
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 1.7K(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 1.8K
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 1.8K
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 Dâý 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)
- #822 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 558 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.7K (inferred from the name graph)
105,091 people, 2010
of 19M surnames, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United Kingdom, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Dâý in other scripts: Korean (Hangul)
(measured from records)Locally spelled Day in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia and 2 more and Dei in IN India.
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)Main GB Location (1881): widespread in England. occupational name from Middle English day(e), dey(e) ‘dairy maid’, sometimes ‘a woman who keeps cows and other farm stock’ (compare the 1221 example). Originally used only of women, it was later used of men with the sense ‘a man in charge of the dairy cattle’. The earliest examples below (about 1055 and about 1095) are almost certainly used in the original sense. Some of the following early bearers may alternatively belong under (2) or (3).
Cited for this meaning 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Digital Pāḷi Dictionary
- Wiktionary
Attested across 36 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Dâý is found
(measured from records)Dâý 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 | #251 | 105,091 | 1 in 3.2K | 105K | Day | 558 |
| GB United Kingdom | #136 | ≈41,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | 1.4K | Day | 325 |
| CA Canada | #216 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.6K | 2 | Day | 251 |
| AU Australia | #159 | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | 1 | Day | 245 |
| IN India | — | 8,685as Dey | 1 in 153K | 8.7K | Dei | 75 |
| NZ New Zealand | #171 | ≈2,900 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | — | Day | 134 |
| GY Guyana | — | 377as Dey | 1 in 2K | 377 | — | 4 |
105,091 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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Dâý mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): widespread in England. occupational name from Middle English day(e), dey(e) ‘dairy maid’, sometimes ‘a woman who keeps cows and other farm stock’ (compare the 1221 example). Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Digital Pāḷi Dictionary and 1 other source.
- Is Dâý a male or female name?
- Dâý is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Dâý?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 105 thousand people named Dâý, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled day. After it come United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and India; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Dâý?
- In the United States, the national register counted 105,091 people named Dâý in 2010, about 1 in 3.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Dâý compared with other names?
- In the United States, Dâý is the 251st most common surname of 6,282,806 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/d%C3%A2%C3%BDThe 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, “Dâý” — ranked 271st in the United States (Census Bureau, 2010). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.