Daguerre

surname · Latin script

Meaning: Louis Jacques Mande, French

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/d̪aʝere/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Daguerre is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • ARArgentina1 in 69K(measured from records)
  • UYUruguay1 in 5.5K
  • FRFrance≈1 in 65K

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.

France (inferred from the name graph)

≈1,000 people, est.

Sources
53 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 5.5K (inferred from the name graph)

Uruguay

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Louis Jacques Mande, French

Sources 1

  • Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Daguerre 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 Daguerre is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
FR France—≈1,000 est.≈1 in 65K137—1
AR Argentina—6621 in 69K662Daguerre53
UY Uruguay#9996181 in 5.5K618Daguerre25
ES Spain—1211 in 413K121Daguerre35
US United States—≈110 est.≈1 in 3MlistedDaguerre26
PY Paraguay—≈100 est.≈1 in 69K—Daguerre10

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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register. 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)

Daguerre is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Canada, Spain

    Also written D'Aguerre

26 further groups 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Daguerre 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 English, inventor

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • In Croatian, francuski umjetnik i fizičar, izumitelj dagerotipije, v. i diorame, v.

    as a wordHrvatski jezični portal (HJP) dictionary export

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)

1400160018002000Martin Guerre, b. 1524Dominique Daguerre, b. 1740Louis Daguerre, b. 1787Pierre Daguerre, b. 1891Jean-Louis Daguerre, b. 1950Martine Daguerre, b. 1956André Daguerre, b. 1960Olivier Daguerre, b. 1969

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).

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalEstimado/a Daguerre,Dear Daguerre, (English)
InformalEstimado/a Daguerre,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 10 sources across 8 countries.

Official registers attesting Daguerre
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—662—
UY UruguayINE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public)—618—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1961184—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1951165—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1941160—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1971154—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1921146—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1991137—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1931134—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1981126—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1901126—
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—121#24,055

Reference works 1

  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Daguerre mean, and where does it come from?
Louis Jacques Mande, French Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
How do you pronounce Daguerre?
A machine transcription gives /d̪aʝere/ (IPA) for Spanish.
In which country does Daguerre have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 1.0 thousand people named Daguerre in France, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Daguerre most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Daguerre is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 5.5 thousand people — even though France holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Daguerre?
In Argentina, the national register counted 662 people named Daguerre, about 1 in 69 thousand residents.
How common is Daguerre compared with other names?
In Uruguay, Daguerre is the 999th most common surname of 57,630 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Daguerre” — the 999th most common surname in Uruguay. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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