Dicey
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Fraught with danger
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/daɪsi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Dicey is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Sudan than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.8M(measured from records)
- SDSudan≈1 in 58K
- LRLiberia≈1 in 145K
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.
- Sudan (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 107 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 58K (inferred from the name graph)
≈780 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Sudan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Fraught with danger.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Dicey 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SD Sudan | ≈780 est. | ≈1 in 58K | — | Dicey | 1 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Dicey | 11 |
| US United States | 180 | 1 in 1.8M | 180 | Dicey | 107 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 398K | — | Dicey | 17 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 492K | — | Dicey | 40 |
| LR Liberia | ≈35 est. | ≈1 in 145K | — | Dicey | 1 |
| PY Paraguay | ≈17 est. | ≈1 in 429K | — | Dicey | 1 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈14 est. | ≈1 in 354K | — | Dicey | 13 |
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. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Thomas Diceyb. 1742English newspaper editor
- Thomas Edward Diceyb. 1789GBnewspaper proprietor and chairman of Midland Counties Railway
- Edward Diceyb. 1832GBBritish journalist, editor and writer (1832–1911)
- Frank Diceyb. 1838c.1838-1888 (1838–1888)
- Bill Diceyb. 1936USAmerican blues harmonicist, singer and songwriter
- Elizabeth DiceyEnglish printer, wife of John Cluer
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 8 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1949 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1935 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2008 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1954 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1938 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1900 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1892 | 5 | — |
Reference works 2
- 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 Dicey mean, and where does it come from?
- Fraught with danger. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Dicey?
- A machine transcription gives /daɪsi/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Dicey have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 781 people named Dicey in the Sudan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dicey.
- How common is the name Dicey?
- In the United States, the national register counted 180 people named Dicey in 2010, about 1 in 1.8 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/diceyThe 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, “Dicey”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.