Dc
loc · Latin script
Meaning: Initialism of District of Columbia, a federal district of the United States of America
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Dc is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- USUnited States≈1 in 609K(inferred from the name graph)
- FRFrance≈1 in 184K
- ATAustria≈1 in 240K
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.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 140 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 184K (inferred from the name graph)
≈960 people, est.
Highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled D'C in PE Peru.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Initialism of District of Columbia, a federal district of the United States of America.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Dc 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | ≈960 est. | ≈1 in 1.4M | 1 | — | 27 |
| US United States | ≈550 est. | ≈1 in 609K | listed | Dc | 140 |
| FR France | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 184K | — | Dc | 1 |
| CO Colombia | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 249K | — | Dc | 1 |
| ES Spain | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 352K | — | Dc | 17 |
| PE Peru | ≈78 est. | ≈1 in 410K | — | D'C | 5 |
| AT Austria | ≈37 est. | ≈1 in 240K | — | Dc | 8 |
| BR Brazil | 20 | 1 in 11M | 20 | Dc | 1 |
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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Dc is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Dutch, initialism of districtscommissaris (“district commissioner”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, abbreviation of de ce (“why”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Symbol for decicoulomb, an SI unit of electric charge equal to 10⁻¹ coulombs.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, initialism of Democrazia Cristiana (Christian Democracy)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Portuguese, AD (after the birth of Christ)
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 4 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 20 | #194,891 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Dc mean, and where does it come from?
- Initialism of District of Columbia, a federal district of the United States of America. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Dc have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 955 people named Dc in India, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Dc?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 20 people named Dc, about 1 in 11 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/dcThe 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, “Dc”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.