Degante
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/deɡante/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Degante is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Mexico than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Spanish Degante; this surname is predominantly found in Mexico.
- MXMexico≈1 in 46K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 383K
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 560Kfew records
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.
- Mexico (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 91 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 46K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,900 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Mexico, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Degante
- Spanish:/deɡante/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Borrowed from Spanish Degante; this surname is predominantly found in Mexico.
Cited for this meaning 1
Where the surname Degante is found
(measured from records)Degante 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MX Mexico | ≈2,900 est. | ≈1 in 46K | 45 | Degante | 63 |
| US United States | 868 | 1 in 383K | 868 | Degante | 91 |
| CA Canada | ≈30 est. | ≈1 in 1.4M | — | Degante | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈15 est. | ≈1 in 4.5M | — | Degante | 1 |
| SV El Salvador | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 564K | — | Degante | 3 |
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: RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); 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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)6 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Degante mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Spanish Degante; this surname is predominantly found in Mexico. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Degante?
- In Spanish /deɡante/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Degante?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.9 thousand people named Degante in Mexico, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled degante. After it come United States, Canada, United Kingdom and El Salvador; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Degante?
- In the United States, the national register counted 868 people named Degante in 2010, about 1 in 383 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/deganteThe 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, “Degante” — ranked 2844th in Mexico (RENAPO). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.