Dalê
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Dalê is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Vietnam than in any other country, where it is the 20th most common given name. Recorded meaning: From Middle English dale, from Old English dæl, from Proto-West Germanic *dal, from Proto-Germanic *dalą. Dalê is also written เด in Thai and დეილი in Georgian.
- SGSingapore≈1 in 890(inferred from the name graph)
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 900
- CACanada≈1 in 910
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 Dalê itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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.
- Vietnam (inferred from the name graph)
- #342 (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 575 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 892 (inferred from the name graph)
≈600,000 named Duy, est.
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Singapore, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Dalê in other scripts: Thai and Georgian
(measured from records)Locally spelled Dale in US United States, GB United Kingdom, CA Canada and 2 more, Duy in VN Vietnam and Htoo in MM Myanmar (Burma).
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)- Middle Englishdale(measured from records)
- Old Englishdæl(measured from records)
- Proto-West Germanic*dal(measured from records)
- Proto-Germanic*dalą(measured from records)
From Middle English dale, from Old English dæl, from Proto-West Germanic *dal, from Proto-Germanic *dalą.
Cited for this meaning 10
- 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
- A concise dictionary of first names
- A dictionary of surnames
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
Attested across 28 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Dalê 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VN Vietnam | #20 | ≈600,000 est. | ≈1 in 168 | 105 | Duy | 236 |
| US United States | #169 | 188,893 | 1 in 1.8K | 173K | Dale | 575 |
| MM Myanmar (Burma) | — | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 495 | listed | Htoo | 80 |
| GB United Kingdom | #221 | ≈56,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | 1.3K | Dale | 269 |
| CA Canada | #150 | ≈46,000 est. | ≈1 in 907 | 3 | Dale | 281 |
| SG Singapore | #88 | ≈6,800 est. | ≈1 in 892 | — | Dale | 46 |
| NZ New Zealand | #151 | ≈5,900 est. | ≈1 in 897 | 12 | Dale | 120 |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; The page provides an analysis of the performance of Vietnamese surname lists in identifying Vietnamese individuals for r; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Dalê mean, and where does it come from?
- From Middle English dale, from Old English dæl, from Proto-West Germanic *dal, from Proto-Germanic *dalą. Recorded by 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado and A concise dictionary of first names and 8 other sources.
- Is Dalê a male or female name?
- Dalê is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- Which countries have the most people named Dalê?
- Mondonomo estimates about 603 thousand people named Duy in Vietnam, more than in any other country we hold. After it come United States, Myanmar (Burma), United Kingdom and Canada; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Dalê?
- In the United States, the national register counted 188,893 people named Dalê in 2020, about 1 in 1.8 thousand residents.
- How common is Dalê compared with other names?
- In Vietnam, Dalê is the 20th most common given name of 73,918 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Dalê?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/dal%C3%AAThe 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, “Dalê” — ranked 8th in Vietnam (The page provides an analysis of the performance of Vietnamese surname lists in identifying Vietnamese individuals for r). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.