Dandy
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A man very concerned about his physical appearance, refined language, and leisurely hobbies, pursued with the appearance of nonchalance in a cult of self
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/dændi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Dandy is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 12K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 924K
- PEPeru≈1 in 51K
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 227 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
≈9,400 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A man very concerned about his physical appearance, refined language, and leisurely hobbies, pursued with the appearance of nonchalance in a cult of self.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Dandy 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | ≈9,400 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Dandy | 43 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈4,000 est. | ≈1 in 54K | — | Dandy | 29 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 54K | — | Dandy | 3 |
| PE Peru | ≈630 est. | ≈1 in 51K | — | Dandy | 22 |
| US United States | 360 | 1 in 924K | 1.5K | Dandy | 227 |
| HK Hong Kong | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 71K | — | Dandy | 4 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010. 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Dandy is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Romanian, DÁNDI s. m. Tânăr elegant, îmbrăcat după ultimul jurnal de modă; om de o eleganță prea rafinată, uneori exagerată și ușor ridicolă. [Scris și: dandy. - Pr.: déndi].
as a wordDEX online (dexonline.ro) - DEX '96 / DEX '98 definitions with etymology
In Croatian, onaj tko poklanja preveliku pozornost svom odijevanju ili izgledu, netko tko pretjerano slijedi modu [ on je pravi dandy ]; fićfirić, gizdelin, kicoš
as a wordHrvatski jezični portal (HJP) dictionary export
In Latvian, Dendijs
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
- Jess Dandyb. 1871USAmerican actor (1871-1923)
- Walter Edward Dandyb. 1886USAmerican neurosurgeon (1886–1946)
- Raymond Dandyb. 1887SNFrench actor (1887-1953)
- James Edgar Dandyb. 1903GBBritish botanist (1903-1976)
- Richard Dandyb. 1977GBEnglish cricketer (born 1977)
- Riley Dandyb. 1993American actress
- Justine DandyAUresearcher
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 34 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 276 | #26,063 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 84 | #26,063 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1959 | 11 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2005 | 8 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1981 | 8 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2014 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1975 | 5 | — |
Reference works 5
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Dandy mean, and where does it come from?
- A man very concerned about his physical appearance, refined language, and leisurely hobbies, pursued with the appearance of nonchalance in a cult of self. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Dandy a male or female name?
- Dandy 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.
- How do you pronounce Dandy?
- A machine transcription gives /dændi/ (IPA) for English.
- What are other forms of the name Dandy?
- In the etymology graph, Andrew is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Dandy have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 9.4 thousand people named Dandy in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dandy.
- How common is the name Dandy?
- In the United States, the national register counted 360 people named Dandy in 2020, about 1 in 924 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/dandyThe 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, “Dandy”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.