De
loc · Latin script
Meaning: Northern Liberia: people who speak a Kru dialect; also called Dewoi or Do
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/de/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
De is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country.
- ESSpain≈1 in 1.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- PYParaguay≈1 in 1.6K
- BRBrazil≈1 in 2.9K
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.
- Netherlands (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 527 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 131 (inferred from the name graph)
≈130,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Netherlands, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Dé in US United States and Dë in GT Guatemala.
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)
Northern Liberia: people who speak a Kru dialect; also called Dewoi or Do.
Sources 1
- African Names
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
De 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | ≈130,000 est. | ≈1 in 131 | 19 | — | 178 |
| IT Italy | ≈81,000 est. | ≈1 in 766 | — | De | 205 |
| BR Brazil | ≈72,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.9K | 4.5K | De | 367 |
| ES Spain | ≈37,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | De | 342 |
| JP Japan | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | De | 93 |
| GT Guatemala | ≈7,800 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | — | Dë | 143 |
| PY Paraguay | ≈4,500 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | — | De | 96 |
| US United States | 1,123 | 1 in 296K | 1.6K | Dé | 527 |
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: IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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)
De is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Spanish, The name of the Latin-script letter D/d.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, De Giglio see Lilly De Gioia see Joy De Giorgi see George Vars.: Deegin, D(u)jgan, Deighan, Deehan, Dig(g)in; Duffin. Dims.: O’Duigenain, Duignan, D(u)ignam, Di(e)gnan, Dignen (Gael. 6 Duibhgeannain). De Giovanni see John De Giuli see Julio Deeken see Derrick Deeker see Ditch Degli Abati see Abbe
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
In Akan, V, to open wide (gd^nky^m ade n'anom' rebekAme; de kotoku no ano, na m6mfa ntrama no mfnnu mu); to extend; wotwa (mpasOa) dee mu, they extended their lines for fighting, ranged the battle; syn, terew; cf, dede
as a wordDictionary of the Asante and Fante Language called Tshi (Chwee, Twi)
In Akan, dee, dea, profi. put instead of a previous noun //*r. atle, thingJGT,%Q2. me de, mine, also my party my portion; yende, oitrs&c
as a wordDictionary of the Asante and Fante Language called Tshi (Chwee, Twi)
In Akan, wobetraH ho (= wiase ha) mf. ara ni na woreuye adwuma hi? — 3. [== mfe a ensa] years tJiol have no end, always, for ever
as a wordDictionary of the Asante and Fante Language called Tshi (Chwee, Twi)
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)
- Liu Deb. 165son of Emperor Jing of Han
- Gan Deb. 4004th-century BC Chinese astronomer and astrologer
- Empress Xiaogongrenb. 1660CNnot in their usual nameQing Dynasty empress (of Emperor Kangxi); mother of Yongzheng Emperor
- Wu Lien-tehb. 1879MYnot in their usual nameMalaysian physician (1879–1960)
- Zhu Deb. 1886CNMarshal of the People's Republic of China (1886－1976)
- Otto Braunb. 1900DEnot in their usual nameGerman communist writer (1900–1974)
- Josef Ratzenböckb. 1929ATnot in their usual nameAustrian politician
- Shobhaa Deb. 1948INIndian journalist and novelist (born 1948)
- Chang Deokb. 1961KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean singer
- Stephen Fungb. 1974CNnot in their usual nameHong Kong actor, singer and filmmaker (born 1974)
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 61 sources across 44 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 4.5K | #3,628 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.6K | #6,469 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 876 | #6,469 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2011 | 7 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2005 | 5 | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 De mean, and where does it come from?
- Northern Liberia: people who speak a Kru dialect; also called Dewoi or Do. Recorded by African Names.
- How do you pronounce De?
- A machine transcription gives /de/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does De have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 132 thousand people named De in the Netherlands, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name De?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,123 people named De in 2010, about 1 in 296 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about De?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/deThe 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, “De”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.