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Around the globe, Dame (Dama , Dame , Dam , along with others...) is a common gender-neutral first name. The given name Dame is characteristic of Senegal, where it is quite a common masculine name, Greece, where it is quite a common principally masculine, but very infrequently female name, and Cameroon, where it is quite a common mostly female, but uncommonly boy's name. Measured by absolute frequency, this name is the most popular in India, Senegal, and Indonesia. Likewise, Dame is the last name as well as the forename.
VARIANT | COUNTRY |
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Dama, Damo | India, Netherlands, United States, Ethiopia, Indonesia |
Dame | India, Netherlands, United States, Senegal, Indonesia |
Dam | India, Netherlands, United States, Vietnam, Indonesia |
Domina | India, Tanzania, Netherlands, United States, Indonesia |
Даме | Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan, Belarus |
Дам | Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Belarus |
Дамье | Russia |
Dame is also a popular name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Dame Eyola , the character from Michael Ende's The Neverending Story; Dame Shirley , the operatic character in the opera Girls of the Golden West by John Adams; Dame Perchuque , the operatic character in the opera Les aventures du roi Pausole by Arthur Honegger; Dame Pliant , the theatrical character in the play "The Alchemist" and Dame Bertha , the operatic character in the opera The Armourer of Nantes by Michael William Balfe, and in many other works.