Dalle

surname · Latin script

Meaning, in French: slab, flagstone

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/dal/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Dalle is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • ARArgentina1 in 136K(measured from records)
  • BRBrazil1 in 143K
  • BEBelgium1 in 26K

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.

Brazil (measured from records)

1,477 people

Sources
73 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 26K (inferred from the name graph)

Belgium

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

slab, flagstone

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

How Dalle is read(measured from records)

Dalle is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • French52%

    slab, flagstone

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • English12%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Dalle in English.

  • Portuguese11%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Dalle in Portuguese.

  • Spanish11%

    scythe

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • Italian6.3%

    forma pl. de dalla ou contração de da + le

    as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

    contraction of da le; from the

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Dalle 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 Dalle is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil1,4771 in 143K1.5KDalle73
BE Belgium4571 in 26K457—7
AR Argentina3341 in 136K334Dalle35
CH Switzerland1301 in 65K130Dalle4
US United States1281 in 2.6M176Dalle28
ES Spain241 in 2.1M24Dalle17

1,477 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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 — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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)

Dalle is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname9 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Dallé, Dāllë, Dãlle

  • Hindi surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Italy, Malaysia

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Dallé

  • Arabic surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Syria, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, Egypt

    Also written Dallé, Dāllë, Dallê

60 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)

Dalle 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 se, then, at that time

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In rob, maize: Zea mays

    as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

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)

1850190019502000Victor Dalle, b. 1857François Dalle, b. 1918Felix Dalle, b. 1921Thérèse Dalle, b. 1950Peter Dalle, b. 1956Penda Dallé, b. 1958Jean-Christophe Dalle, b. 1959Béatrice Dalle, b. 1964Sabine Dalle, b. 1974Benjamin Dalle, b. 1982

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).

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalMadame, Monsieur,Dear Dalle, (English)
InformalMadame, Monsieur,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 28 sources across 14 countries.

Official registers attesting Dalle
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—1.5K#6,442
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)2008457#3,371
BE BelgiumStatbel — Noms de famille (family names)—442#3,545
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—334—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020176#107,521
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000168#99,725
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)2024130#8,986
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010128#132,206
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—24#74,942
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—24#73,510
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 6

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
  • Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)

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 Dalle mean, and where does it come from?
slab, flagstone Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
What are other forms of the name Dalle?
In the etymology graph, Daal is a form of the same name in other languages.
How do you pronounce Dalle?
A machine transcription gives /dal/ (IPA) for French.
In which country does Dalle have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 1.5 thousand people named Dalle, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dalle.
Where is Dalle most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Dalle is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 26 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Dalle?
In Brazil, the national register counted 1,477 people named Dalle, about 1 in 143 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, “Dalle”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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