Deo
surname · Latin script
Meaning: redução popular e coloquial de Taddeo
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈdioʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Deo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 23K(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 41K
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 56K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Deo itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 231 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 9.2K (inferred from the name graph)
8,613 named Dua
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Tanzania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
redução popular e coloquial de Taddeo
Sources 1
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Where in the world(measured from records)
Deo 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | — | 8,613as Dua | 1 in 154K | 8.6K | Deo | 164 |
| TZ Tanzania | — | ≈6,300 est. | ≈1 in 9.2K | 1 | Deo | 28 |
| US United States | — | 6,252as Dew | 1 in 53K | 6.3K | Deo | 231 |
| DK Denmark | — | 1,966as Due | 1 in 3K | 2K | — | 1 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 56K | — | Deo | 73 |
| NO Norway | — | 628as Due | 1 in 8.7K | 628 | — | 2 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈620 est. | ≈1 in 41K | 1 | Deo | 104 |
| NZ New Zealand | #504 | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Deo | 41 |
8,613 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls, counting the spelling dua. 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); INEC Special Gazette 2021 — 2020 parliamentary election results. 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)
Deo 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 German, clipping of Deodorant (“deodorant”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, alternative form of Dio (“God”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, dative/ablative singular of deus
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In sc, I (first person pronoun)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In io, God, a god, a deity
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)
- Ramesh Deob. 1929INIndian film and television actor
- Sangeeta Kumari Singh Deob. 1961INIndian politician
- Neelam Deob. 2000INIndian diplomat
- Sarang Deob. 2000USresearcher
- Abhinay DeoINfilm director
- Pankaj DeoNPMaithili Wikimedians, Social Activist, and Yoga Instructor
- Om Prakash DeoGBresearcher
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 47 sources across 27 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 821 | #12,289 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 195 | #12,289 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 14 | #21,619 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 10 | — |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 4 | #11,344 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 3 | #17,622 |
| IN India | Indian names with gender (Kaggle) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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 Deo mean, and where does it come from?
- redução popular e coloquial de Taddeo Recorded by Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos.
- What are other forms of the name Deo?
- In the etymology graph, Dev is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Deo?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈdioʊ/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- How common is the name Deo?
- In India, the national register counted 8,613 people named Dua, about 1 in 154 thousand residents.
- How common is Deo compared with other names?
- In New Zealand, Deo is the 504th most common surname of 87,225 surnames recorded there.
- In which country does Deo have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 8.6 thousand people named Dua, more than in any other country we hold.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/deoThe 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, “Deo” — the 504th most common surname in New Zealand. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.