Després

surname · Latin script

Meaning: a surname, equivalent to English Meadows

Després is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 269K(measured from records)
  • CACanada≈1 in 421K
  • FRFrance≈1 in 442K

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.

United States (measured from records)

1,238 people, 2010

Sources
203 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 269K (inferred from the name graph)

United States

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Despres in US United States, CA Canada, MT Malta.

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)

a surname, equivalent to English Meadows

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Després 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.

Where Després is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—1,2381 in 269K1.2KDespres203
FR France—≈150 est.≈1 in 442K588Després72
CA Canada—≈89 est.≈1 in 421K—Despres93
AR Argentina—781 in 583K78—1
CH Switzerland—171 in 494K17Després3
MT Malta#468———Despres1

1,238 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Després is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Despres, Desprès

  • Russian surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Canada

    Languages: Russian, Belarusian

    Also written Despres

  • Spanish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, Spain, United States, Canada

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Despres, Desprès

  • French surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Canada, United States, Spain

    Languages: French, Arabic, Polish

    Also written Despres

  • Hindi surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Canada

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Despres, Desprès

11 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Després is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In French, de des Prés, dérivé de Les Prés, probablement un nom de localités françaises.

    as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition

  • In Catalan, later

    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)

18001850190019502000Armand Després, b. 1834Jean Després, b. 1889Jean-Pierre Després, b. 1919Robert Després, b. 1924Rose Després, b. 1950Michel Després, b. 1957Jean-Pierre Després, b. 1958Geneviève Després, b. 1969Simon Després, b. 1991

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 6 sources across 3 countries.

Official registers attesting Després
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)202417#41,155

Reference works 2

  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)

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 Després mean, and where does it come from?
a surname, equivalent to English Meadows Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Després have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 1.2 thousand people named Després, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled despres.
Where is Després most common?
Després is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 269 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Després?
In the United States, the national register counted 1,238 people named Després in 2010, about 1 in 269 thousand residents.
How common is Després compared with other names?
In Malta, Després is the 468th most common surname of 5,132 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Després” — the 468th most common surname in Malta. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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