Dë
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Dë is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Russian дэ (dɛ).
- ESSpain≈1 in 1.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- PYParaguay≈1 in 1.6K
- BRBrazil≈1 in 2.9K
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.
- Netherlands (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 527 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 131 (inferred from the name graph)
≈130,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Netherlands, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled De in ES Spain, BR Brazil, PY Paraguay and 2 more and Dé in US United States.
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)
Borrowed from Russian дэ (dɛ).
Sources 4
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
- A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese
- Wiktionary
- YorùbáName Dictionary
Attested across 30 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Dë 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | ≈130,000 est. | ≈1 in 131 | 19 | — | 178 |
| IT Italy | ≈81,000 est. | ≈1 in 766 | — | De | 205 |
| BR Brazil | ≈72,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.9K | 4.5K | De | 367 |
| ES Spain | ≈37,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | De | 342 |
| JP Japan | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | De | 93 |
| GT Guatemala | ≈7,800 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | — | Dë | 143 |
| PY Paraguay | ≈4,500 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | — | De | 96 |
| US United States | 1,123 | 1 in 296K | 1.6K | Dé | 527 |
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: IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Dë mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Russian дэ (dɛ). Recorded by The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles and A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese and 2 other sources.
- In which country does Dë have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 132 thousand people named Dë in the Netherlands, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Dë?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,123 people named Dë in 2010, about 1 in 296 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Dë?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/d%C3%ABThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Dë”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.