Dembo

surname · Latin script

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

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

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

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 1.1M(measured from records)
  • GMGambia≈1 in 12K
  • AOAngola≈1 in 24K

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.

Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)

≈1,400 people, est.

Sources
163 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)

Gambia, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Dembo 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 Dembo is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NG Nigeria≈1,400 est.≈1 in 149K—Dembo24
AO Angola≈1,400 est.≈1 in 24K1—4
US United States2971 in 1.1M365Dembo163
ZA South Africa≈190 est.≈1 in 302K—Dembo9
GM Gambia≈180 est.≈1 in 12K2—24
FI Finland301 in 186K30—1
IL Israel≈29 est.≈1 in 297K—Dembo13

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; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); IEC — Nominated Candidates National Assembly Elections 2022; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. 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)

Dembo is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Belgium, United States, Congo - Kinshasa

    Also written Démbo

  • Spanish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Angola, Argentina, Venezuela

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Dembó

  • Russian surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Ukraine, Estonia

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Дембо

46 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)

Dembo is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In bnt-pro, entrance of enclosure; courtyard

    as a wordBantu Lexical Reconstructions 3 (BLR3), Tervuren 2002/2003

  • In Nyanja, vulture

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

  • In bnt-pro, entrée de l'enclos; cour

    as a wordBantu Lexical Reconstructions 3 (BLR3), Tervuren 2002/2003

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)

1850190019502000Izaak Dembo, b. 1863Tamara Dembo, b. 1902Lawrence S. Dembo, b. 1929Antonio Dembo, b. 1944Richard Dembo, b. 1948Amir Dembo, b. 1958Leonard Dembo, b. 1959Fennis Dembo, b. 1966Yelena Dembo, b. 1983Ron Dembo, b. 2000

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)

FormalDear Mr Dembo,
InformalHi Dembo,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 25 sources across 15 countries.

Official registers attesting Dembo
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020365#59,756
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000305#61,544
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010297#66,553
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—30#34,993
AO AngolaWikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names—1#193
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • 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

How do you pronounce Dembo?
A machine transcription gives /dɛmboʊ/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Dembo have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 1.4 thousand people named Dembo in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dembo.
How common is the name Dembo?
In the United States, the national register counted 297 people named Dembo in 2010, about 1 in 1.1 million residents.

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The 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, “Dembo”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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