Deery

surname · Latin script

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

Deery is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: cendant of Daighre’, a byname meaning ‘Fiery’.

rarermore common
  • GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 77K(inferred from the name graph)
  • AUAustralia≈1 in 81K
  • USUnited States1 in 331K

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)

1,006 people, 2010

Sources
225 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 25K (inferred from the name graph)

Ireland, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

recorded in Dutch

cendant of Daighre’, a byname meaning ‘Fiery’. 2. var. of De Hals see Hals Dehl see Derrick Dwyer. * Dehmel see Thomas Deesen see Thiess Dehn see Deinhard, Dench Deeth see Death Deibler see Taube Deevey see Devoy De Facci see Boniface Deichman see Deutsch De Falco see Faulkes Deighan see Deegan De Fant see Infante De Ferrari see Farrar

Sources 1

  • The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Deery 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 Deery is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States1,0061 in 331K1.2KDeery225
GB United Kingdom≈860 est.≈1 in 77KlistedDeery144
GH Ghana≈390 est.≈1 in 76K—Deery4
AU Australia≈310 est.≈1 in 81K—Deery93
IE Ireland≈210 est.≈1 in 25K—Deery54
SG Singapore≈23 est.≈1 in 264K—Deery4

1,006 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. 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)

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

  • Hungarian surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Hungary

    Also written Deéry

37 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)

Deery is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • cendant of Daighre’, a byname meaning ‘Fiery’. 2. var. of Dwyer. Degenschein Jewish (Ashkenazic): ornamental name meaning ‘sword shine’, from Ger. Degen sword, rapier + Schein shine. Vars.: Degenszejn, Degenszajn (E Ashkenazic, Pol. spellings).

    as a nameA dictionary of surnames

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)

190019201940196019802000Kathleen Deery de Phelps, b. 1908Joan Deery, b. 1912Maurie Deery, b. 1947John Deery, b. 1975Kevin Deery, b. 1984

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 11 sources across 4 countries.

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 Deery mean?
Recorded meaning: cendant of Daighre’, a byname meaning ‘Fiery’.
In which country does Deery have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 1.0 thousand people named Deery, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled deery.
How common is the name Deery?
In the United States, the national register counted 1,006 people named Deery in 2010, about 1 in 331 thousand residents.

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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, “Deery”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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