Degré

surname · Latin script

Meaning: degree

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Degré is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 2.8M(measured from records)
  • BEBelgium1 in 2M

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

118 people, 2010

Sources
79 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 2.0M (inferred from the name graph)

Belgium

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Degre in US United States, GB United Kingdom, CA Canada and 2 more.

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)

degree

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Degré 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 Degré is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States1181 in 2.8M135Degre79
BE Belgium61 in 2M6Degré3
GB United Kingdom———Degre9
CA Canada———Degre15
DE Germany———Degre10
IE Ireland———Degre1

118 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; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)

Degré is also recorded as 4 other names, 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 Degre

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Degre

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Degre

  • French (Côte d’Ivoire) surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Côte d’Ivoire

    Also written Degre

6 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)

Degré 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 French, Soit de Degré, localité en Sarthe, soit de de Grez, localités surtout dans le nord de la France.

    as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition

  • In fro, step (flat, horizontal surface on a staircase)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In lld, degree, rank

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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)

18001850190019502000Henri Degré, b. 1818Alajos Degré, b. 1819Miklós Degré, b. 1867Alajos Degré, b. 1909Tippi Degré, b. 1990
  • Henri Degréb. 1818FRFrench architect, active in Dijon
  • Alajos Degréb. 1819HUwriter, lawyer, politician (1819–1896)
  • Miklós Degréb. 1867HUHungarian judge, scholar of criminal law, regional high court of appeal president, legal editor (1867–1945)
  • Alajos Degréb. 1909HUHungarian legal historian, archivist (1909–1984)
  • Tippi Degréb. 1990FRFrench documentary maker

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 2 sources across 0 countries.

Reference works 2

  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)

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 Degré mean, and where does it come from?
degree Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Degré have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 118 people named Degré, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled degre.
Where is Degré most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Degré is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 2.0 million people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Degré?
In the United States, the national register counted 118 people named Degré in 2010, about 1 in 2.8 million 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, “Degré”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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