Dassie

surname · Latin script

Meaning: A small, herbivorous mammal in the order Hyracoidea, the rock hyrax

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

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

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

rarermore common
  • BRBrazil1 in 258K(measured from records)
  • FRFrance≈1 in 214K
  • ARArgentina1 in 264K

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.

Brazil (measured from records)

820 people

Sources
66 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 214K (inferred from the name graph)

France, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

A small, herbivorous mammal in the order Hyracoidea, the rock hyrax.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Dassie 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 Dassie is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil8201 in 258K820Dassie66
FR France≈320 est.≈1 in 214K54—1
AR Argentina1721 in 264K172Dassie33
IT Italy≈170 est.≈1 in 368KlistedDassie4
US United States1231 in 2.7M177Dassie12
CH Switzerland191 in 442K19—1

820 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); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); the xinhua-italian-manual register. 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)

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

  • English surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, South Africa, Australia, Germany

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Dassié, Dassiè

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Cameroon, Italy

    Also written Dassié, Dassiè

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Dassié, Dassiè

  • Italian surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy

    Also written Dassiè, Dassié, Dassiê

  • Hindi name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Dassiê, Dassié

33 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)

Dassie is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Afrikaans, rock hyrax, dassie

    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.

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalDear Ms Dassie,
InformalHi Dassie,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 18 sources across 10 countries.

Official registers attesting Dassie
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—820#11,042
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020177#107,024
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—172—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010123#136,449
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000122#128,797
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)196161—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)199154—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)197153—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)194153—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)198149—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)195148—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)192144—

Reference works 4

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
  • 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 Dassie mean, and where does it come from?
A small, herbivorous mammal in the order Hyracoidea, the rock hyrax. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Dassie?
A machine transcription gives /dæsi/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Dassie have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 820 people named Dassie, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dassie.
How common is the name Dassie?
In Brazil, the national register counted 820 people named Dassie, about 1 in 258 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, “Dassie”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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