Düc

surname · Latin script

Düc 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 46K(measured from records)
  • ISIceland1 in 17K
  • SESweden1 in 19K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

7,303 people, 2020

Sources
146 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 17K (inferred from the name graph)

Iceland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Duc in US United States, NL Netherlands.

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)

recorded in French

Le succès de l’opéra-comique Le petit Duc , de Meilhac et Halévy, en 1878, provoqua l’apparition argotique du mot duc pour désigner un chapeau melon à bords étroits. Le Dictionnaire de l’argot de Larousse signale aussi que l’expression « duc de Guiche » est employée pour désigner le directeur d’une prison, en jouant sur les mots Guise et guichet.

Sources 5

  • Dizionario dei cognomi italiani
  • 2500 noms propres devenus communs : dictionnaire étymologique (éponymes, antonomases et hypallages)
  • Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
  • Dictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
  • Nordic Names

Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Düc 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 Düc is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States7,3031 in 46K6.8KDuc146
SE Sweden5411 in 19K541—15
DK Denmark1591 in 37K156——
NL Netherlands1421 in 122K142Duc31
FI Finland1321 in 42K603—12
IS Iceland211 in 17K21——

7,303 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)

Düc is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name25 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Australia, Germany, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Duc, Duec, Dúc, Düç, Dūc

3 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.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Düc under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Düc have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 7.3 thousand people named Düc, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled duc.
Where is Düc most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Düc is densest in Iceland — about 1 in 17 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Düc?
In the United States, the national register counted 7,303 people named Düc in 2020, about 1 in 46 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, “Düc”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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