Dessi
surname · Latin script
Meaning: first/second-person singular imperfect subjunctive of dare (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 17 countries · latest register: SSA, 2024
/dessi/(machine-generated) Italian · model-generated
Dessi is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 160K(inferred from the name graph)
- ARArgentina1 in 598K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 600K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 133 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 9.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈6,300 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Dessi
- Italian:/dessi/(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)first/second-person singular imperfect subjunctive of dare
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where the surname Dessi is found
(measured from records)Dessi 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | ≈6,300 est. | ≈1 in 9.4K | listed | Dessi | 24 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 23K | 456 | Dessi | 3 |
| FR France | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 164K | 65 | Dessi | 133 |
| BR Brazil | 160 | 1 in 1.3M | 160 | — | — |
| US United States | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 2.6M | 94 | Dessi | 15 |
| CM Cameroon | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 243K | — | Dessi | 2 |
| AR Argentina | 76 | 1 in 598K | 76 | — | 1 |
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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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)27 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 17 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Dessi mean, and where does it come from?
- first/second-person singular imperfect subjunctive of dare Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Dessi?
- In Italian /dessi/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Dessi?
- Mondonomo estimates about 6.3 thousand people named Dessi in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dessi. After it come Côte d’Ivoire, France, Brazil and United States; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Dessi?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 160 people named Dessi, about 1 in 1.3 million 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/dessiThe 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, “Dessi”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.