Dedë

given name · Latin script

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

Dedë is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Believed to be derived from Latin dominicus. An alternative form of Dodë (cognate to Gheg Albanian Ded, Dod). Derived from Dedalij, the name of a figure in Albanian mythology.

rarermore common
  • ALAlbania1 in 9.7K(measured from records)
  • USUnited States1 in 194K
  • SESweden1 in 276K

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)

1,718 people, 2020

Sources
24 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 9.7K (inferred from the name graph)

Albania

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 Dede in US United States.

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)

Derivation of Dedë: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Dedë
  1. Latindominicus(measured from records)
  2. Proto-Indo-European*tewtéh₂“people“people, tribe”(measured from records)

Believed to be derived from Latin dominicus. An alternative form of Dodë (cognate to Gheg Albanian Ded, Dod). Derived from Dedalij, the name of a figure in Albanian mythology. Described as being very tall, mighty and a giant (similarities with Gigas, Gigantes and Titans in Greek mythology). Probably related or a cognate to Albanian tëtanë (“all, people, total”); which derived from Proto-Indo-European *tewtéh₂ (“people, tribe”). Recorded earliest since the 13th century.

Sources 1

Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Dedë 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 Dedë is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—1,7181 in 194K1.6KDede5
AL Albania#3473181 in 9.7K315Dedë24
BR Brazil—2761 in 767K509——
NL Netherlands—421 in 411K112——
SE Sweden—371 in 276K37——
DK Denmark—171 in 345K13——

1,718 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; INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)

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

  • Croatian surname16 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, United States, Bulgaria, Croatia

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Serbian

    Also written Dede, Деде, Dėdė, Dédé, Déde

  • Indonesian given name10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, United States, Malaysia, Russia

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Dede, 'Dede, Dede', Dédé, Dèdè

  • Italian given name8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, United States

    Also written Dede, Dedè, Dede', Dedé, Dëdë

  • English given name16 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Nigeria

    Also written Dede, De-De, Dédé, Dedè, Dëdë

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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

  • Reshat Bardhib. 1935ALnot in their usual nameAlbanian religious leader (1935–2011)
  • Dede Dekajb. 1970ALAlbanian weightlifter (* 1972)

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 2 sources across 1 country.

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 Dedë mean, and where does it come from?
Believed to be derived from Latin dominicus. An alternative form of Dodë (cognate to Gheg Albanian Ded, Dod). Derived from Dedalij, the name of a figure in Albanian mythology. Recorded by Wiktionary.
Is Dedë a male or female name?
Dedë is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Dedë have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 1.7 thousand people named Dedë, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dede.
Where is Dedë most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Dedë is densest in Albania — about 1 in 9.7 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Dedë?
In the United States, the national register counted 1,718 people named Dedë in 2020, about 1 in 194 thousand residents.
How common is Dedë compared with other names?
In Albania, Dedë is the 347th most common given name of 11,910 given names recorded there.

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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, “Dedë” — the 347th most common given name in Albania. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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