Dâncê
surname · Latin script
Dâncê is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Middle English dauncen, daunsen, a borrowing from Anglo-Norman dauncer, dancer (“to dance”) (compare Old French dancier), from Frankish *þansōn (“to draw, pull, stretch out, gesture”) (compare Ol.
- USUnited States1 in 116K(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 186K
- SESweden1 in 1M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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)
- Record sources
- 26 (measured from records)
- 1 in 116K (inferred from the name graph)
2,869 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Dance in BR Brazil.
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)- Middle Englishdauncen(measured from records)
- Anglo-Normandauncer“to dance”(measured from records)
- Frankish*þansōn“to draw“to draw, pull, stretch out, gesture”(measured from records)
- Proto-West Germanic*þansōn(measured from records)
- Proto-Indo-European*tens-“to stretch“to stretch, pull”(measured from records)
- Latinsaltāre“to leap“to leap, dance”(measured from records)
From Middle English dauncen, daunsen, a borrowing from Anglo-Norman dauncer, dancer (“to dance”) (compare Old French dancier), from Frankish *þansōn (“to draw, pull, stretch out, gesture”) (compare Old High German dansōn (“to draw, pull”)), from Proto-West Germanic *þansōn, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *tens- (“to stretch, pull”). Replaced Old English sealtian (“to dance”) borrowed from Latin saltāre (“to leap, dance”). More at thin.
Cited for this meaning 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Dâncê 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 | 2,869 | 1 in 116K | 2.9K | — | 22 |
| BR Brazil | 33 | 1 in 6.4M | 33 | Dance | 26 |
| FI Finland | 30 | 1 in 186K | 30 | — | — |
| ES Spain | 30 | 1 in 1.7M | 30 | — | 5 |
| EC Ecuador | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | 1 | — | 1 |
| BE Belgium | 11 | 1 in 1.1M | 11 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 10 | 1 in 1M | 10 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 8 | 1 in 1.1M | 8 | — | 1 |
2,869 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024). 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 Dâncê mean, and where does it come from?
- From Middle English dauncen, daunsen, a borrowing from Anglo-Norman dauncer, dancer (“to dance”) (compare Old French dancier), from Frankish *þansōn (“to draw, pull, stretch out, gesture”) (compare Ol… Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
- In which country does Dâncê have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.9 thousand people named Dâncê, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Dâncê most common?
- Dâncê is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 116 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Dâncê?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,869 people named Dâncê in 2010, about 1 in 116 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/d%C3%A2nc%C3%AAThe 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, “Dâncê”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.