Due
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: Owed or owing
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/du/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Due is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Africa than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 14Kas Du(inferred from the name graph)
- DEGermany≈1 in 22Kas Du
- USUnited States1 in 44Kas Du
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 Due 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.
- South Africa (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 409 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈190,000 named Du, est.
Highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Du in US United States, FR France, ZA South Africa and Düe in DE Germany.
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)
pigeon, dove (Columbidae)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
How Due is read(measured from records)
Due is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English49%
Owed or owing.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Danish16%
pigeon, dove (Columbidae)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish13%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Due in Spanish.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Due 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZA South Africa | ≈190,000 est. | ≈1 in 292 | — | Du | 135 |
| US United States | 7,566as Du | 1 in 44K | 11K | Du | 409 |
| FR France | ≈4,800 est. | ≈1 in 14K | 79 | Du | 320 |
| AU Australia | ≈4,700 est. | ≈1 in 5.4K | 1 | Due | 178 |
| DE Germany | ≈3,600 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Düe | 118 |
| DK Denmark | 1,966 | 1 in 3K | 2K | — | 3 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈790 est. | ≈1 in 6.2K | — | Due | 86 |
| NO Norway | 628 | 1 in 8.7K | 628 | Due | 17 |
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; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present). 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)
Due is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Akan, (the interj, or imp, mentioned under d u e «9 a), used as a noun) a pitiful state or condition, pr, 604, expression of pity. — ma due, to condole, console, comfort, soothe. Biribi a eye yaw ay^ onipa na woko ne hkyeh kose se: 'mgbo 'mobo! na woaroa no due a.s. hyedeh neh. pr. 567.604,700. 1039 f
as a wordDictionary of the Asante and Fante Language called Tshi (Chwee, Twi)
In enm, alternative form of dewe (“due”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In mui, alternative form of dué (“two”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Bokmål, a dove or pigeon; culver (one of several birds of the family Columbidae, which consists of more than 300 species)
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)
- Paul Dueb. 1835NONorwegian architect (1835–1919)
- Olaf Dueb. 1863NONorwegian architect (1863-1947)
- Paul Armin Dueb. 1870NONorwegian architect (1870–1926)
- Steen Dueb. 1898DKDanish field hockey player (1898–1974)
- Patricia Stephens Dueb. 1939USCivil rights activist (1939–2012)
- Peter Dueb. 1947DKDanish sailor
- Tananarive Dueb. 1966USAmerican writer
- Thomas Dueb. 1971NONorwegian curler
- Louise Bager Dueb. 1982DKDanish handball player
- Anders Dueb. 1982DKDanish footballer
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 28 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 87 | #47,349 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 51 | #47,349 |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
- 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
- How do you pronounce Due?
- A machine transcription gives /du/ (IPA) for English.
- Where does the name Due come from?
- pigeon, dove (Columbidae) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What does the name Due mean?
- In English, Owed or owing.
- What are other forms of the name Due?
- In the etymology graph, Duty and Taube are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Due have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 193 thousand people named Du in South Africa, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Due most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Due is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 3.0 thousand people — even though South Africa holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Due?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 1,966 people named Due, about 1 in 3.0 thousand 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, “Due”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.