Dėdė

given name · Latin script

Meaning: uncle (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Dėdė is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 1,718 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2020.

  • ALAlbania1 in 9.7K(measured from records)
  • USUnited States1 in 194K
  • SESweden1 in 276K

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)

1,718 people, 2020

Record sources
9 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: reference-verified

1 in 9.7K (inferred from the name graph)

Albania

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Dede in LT Lithuania.

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)

uncle

Cited for this meaning 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Dėdė 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.

Where Dėdė is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States1,7181 in 194K1.6K—4
AL Albania3181 in 9.7K315——
BR Brazil2761 in 767K509——
LT Lithuania≈83 est.≈1 in 35K—Dede9
NL Netherlands421 in 411K112——
SE Sweden371 in 276K37——
DK Denmark171 in 345K13——

1,718 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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 names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Dėdė is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French given name10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Belgium, Togo

    Also written Dede, Dédé, Dèdè, Dède, Dedé

  • Croatian surname16 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, United States, Bulgaria, Croatia

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Serbian

    Also written Dede, Деде, Dedë, Dédé, Déde

  • a separate name8 spellings in the group

    Also written Dedê, Dédé, Dedé, Dedè, Dèdè

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Dede

1 further group record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Dėdė under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Dėdė mean, and where does it come from?
uncle Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
Is Dėdė a male or female name?
Dėdė is a male 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 named Dėdė?
In the United States, the national register counted about 1.7 thousand people named Dėdė, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Albania, Brazil, Lithuania and Netherlands; the country table on this page ranks them.
Where is Dėdė most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Dėdė is densest in Albania — about 1 in 9.7 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Dėdė?
In the United States, the national register counted 1,718 people named Dėdė in 2020, about 1 in 194 thousand residents.

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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, “Dėdė” — ranked 8434th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2020). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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