Dęę
surname · Latin script
Dęę is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Hokkien 李 (Lí), via English Dee, with the initial ⟨L⟩ changed to ⟨D⟩ due to /l/~/d/ allophony when the proceeding vowel is either, [i], [e], or [u] in Philippine Hokkien.
- IEIreland≈1 in 4.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 6.1K
- SGSingapore≈1 in 6.7K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 525 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.2K (inferred from the name graph)
20,339 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Ireland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Dee in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia and 5 more.
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)
- Hokkien李Lí(measured from records)
- EnglishDee(measured from records)
From Hokkien 李 (Lí), via English Dee, with the initial ⟨L⟩ changed to ⟨D⟩ due to /l/~/d/ allophony when the proceeding vowel is either, [i], [e], or [u] in Philippine Hokkien.
Sources 5
- 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
- A concise dictionary of first names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Dęę 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 | #576 | 20,339 | 1 in 16K | 16K | Dee | 525 |
| GB United Kingdom | #621 | ≈9,100 est. | ≈1 in 7.2K | 3 | Dee | 252 |
| CA Canada | #627 | ≈5,400 est. | ≈1 in 7K | 1 | Dee | 172 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈4,700 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Dee | 62 |
| AU Australia | #644 | ≈4,200 est. | ≈1 in 6.1K | 1 | Dee | 177 |
| IE Ireland | #293 | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 4.2K | — | Dee | 74 |
| SG Singapore | #420 | ≈930 est. | ≈1 in 6.7K | — | Dee | 51 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈830 est. | ≈1 in 5.9K | — | Dee | 89 |
20,339 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; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender. 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 Dęę mean, and where does it come from?
- From Hokkien 李 (Lí), via English Dee, with the initial ⟨L⟩ changed to ⟨D⟩ due to /l/~/d/ allophony when the proceeding vowel is either, [i], [e], or [u] in Philippine Hokkien. Recorded by 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado and A concise dictionary of first names and 3 other sources.
- In which country does Dęę have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 20 thousand people named Dęę, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dee.
- How common is the name Dęę?
- In the United States, the national register counted 20,339 people named Dęę in 2020, about 1 in 16 thousand residents.
- How common is Dęę compared with other names?
- In the United States, Dęę is the 576th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/d%C4%99%C4%99The 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, “Dęę” — the 576th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.