Dembo
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 15 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ɗembɔ/(machine-generated) Swahili · model-generated
Dembo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Angola than in any other country.
- AOAngola≈1 in 7.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- GMGambia≈1 in 130K
- FIFinland1 in 186K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Angola (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 163 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 7.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,300 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Angola, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where the surname Dembo is found
(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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AO Angola | ≈5,300 est. | ≈1 in 7.2K | 1 | — | 4 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 187K | — | Dembo | 24 |
| US United States | 297 | 1 in 1.1M | 365 | Dembo | 163 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 306K | — | Dembo | 9 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 2.6M | — | Dembo | 13 |
| IL Israel | ≈34 est. | ≈1 in 297K | — | Dembo | 13 |
| FI Finland | 30 | 1 in 186K | 30 | — | 1 |
| GM Gambia | ≈20 est. | ≈1 in 135K | 2 | — | 24 |
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 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)- Richard Dembob. 1948FRfilm director (1948-2004)
- Fennis Dembob. 1966USAmerican basketball player (born 1966)
- Yelena Dembob. 1983RURussian-Greek chess player
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)Evidence
(measured from records)25 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 15 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Dembo?
- In Swahili /ɗembɔ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Dembo?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.3 thousand people named Dembo in Angola, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Nigeria, United States, South Africa and Indonesia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- 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.
What do you want to know about Dembo?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/demboThe 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 2026-10-13.