Dy
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Obsolete form of die
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/di/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Dy is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 5.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- DEGermany≈1 in 41K
- USUnited States1 in 172K
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 261 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈20,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
Obsolete form of die.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Dy 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | #442 | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.6K | — | Dy | 145 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 41K | — | Dy | 47 |
| US United States | — | 1,932 | 1 in 172K | 2.2K | Dy | 261 |
| FR France | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 50K | 52 | — | 3 |
| CL Chile | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 16K | 1 | — | — |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈990 est. | ≈1 in 33K | — | Dy | 29 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 38K | — | Dy | 29 |
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); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021). 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)
Dy 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 cdo, NG 32 the sections of melons (chai- I-¥ melon seeds, (sa-gui)
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
In cdo, : the hollow under the knee, bracken, an edible fern
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
In frm, first-person singular present indicative of dire
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Filipino, a Chinese Filipino surname from Hokkien
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Danish, to restrain oneself, to help oneself
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)
- Faustino Dyb. 1925PHPhilippine politician (1925-1993)
- Benjamin Dyb. 1952PHFilipino politician (1952-2013)
- Bernadette Herrera-Dyb. 1976PHPhilippine politician
- Paolo Dyb. 1978PHfilm director
- Luane Dyb. 1986PHFilipina actress and host
- Denise Dyb. 1989PHFilipino tennis player
- Jason Dyb. 1990PHFilipino singer
- Rolando Dyb. 1991PHFilipino mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter
- Kim Kianna Dyb. 1995PHFilipino volleyball player
- Ron L Dyb. 2000NZresearcher
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 20 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.2K | #13,421 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.9K | #15,232 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.4K | #18,077 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 78 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 52 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 41 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 33 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 27 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 23 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 22 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 16 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 16 | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Dy mean, and where does it come from?
- Obsolete form of die. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Dy?
- A machine transcription gives /di/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Dy have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 20 thousand people named Dy in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dy.
- How common is the name Dy?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,932 people named Dy in 2010, about 1 in 172 thousand residents.
- How common is Dy compared with other names?
- In the Philippines, Dy is the 442nd most common surname of 876,464 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/dyThe 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, “Dy” — the 442nd most common surname in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.