Dück
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Dück is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Canada than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): London; NR Yorks; Wilts. See Duke . 2 Irish: adopted for Ó Leocháin ‘descendant of Leochán’ (See Logan ) by mistranslation, as if from lacha ‘duck’.
- DEGermany≈1 in 42K(inferred from the name graph)
- CACanada≈1 in 19Kas Dueck
- USUnited States1 in 521Kas Dueck
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 Dück itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Canada (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 179 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 42K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,900 named Dueck, est.
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Dueck in CA Canada, US United States, PY Paraguay and 3 more.
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)
Main GB Location (1881): London; NR Yorks; Wilts. See Duke . 2 Irish: adopted for Ó Leocháin ‘descendant of Leochán’ (See Logan ) by mistranslation, as if from lacha ‘duck’. • Current frequencies: GB 110, Ireland 0 • GB frequency 1881: 150 • Main GB location 1881: Lincs English: locative name, apparently from a lost place in Burton Fleming or Rudston (ER Yorks) that gives its name to Dickering wapentake; See Place-Names of ER Yorks, pp. 84–6.
Sources 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Dück 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CA Canada | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Dueck | 167 |
| DE Germany | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 42K | — | Dück | 73 |
| US United States | 638as Dueck | 1 in 521K | 746 | Dueck | 179 |
| BR Brazil | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 1M | — | Dueck | 23 |
| PY Paraguay | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 48K | — | Dueck | 10 |
| CR Costa Rica | 65as Dueck | 1 in 78K | 65 | Dueck | 6 |
| UY Uruguay | 41as Dueck | 1 in 83K | 41 | Dück | 5 |
| CH Switzerland | 15 | 1 in 560K | 15 | Dueck | 6 |
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; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Johannes Dückb. 1875DEphysician, teacher and writer
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 4 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 15 | #45,119 |
Reference works 1
- 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 Dück mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): London; NR Yorks; Wilts. See Duke . 2 Irish: adopted for Ó Leocháin ‘descendant of Leochán’ (See Logan ) by mistranslation, as if from lacha ‘duck’. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Wiktionary.
- In which country does Dück have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.9 thousand people named Dueck in Canada, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Dück?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 15 people named Dück in 2024, about 1 in 560 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/d%C3%BCckThe 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, “Dück”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.