Demby
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈdɛmbi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Demby is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From dąb (“oak”).
- USUnited States1 in 234K(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 260K
- SESweden1 in 378K
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)
- Sources
- 40 (measured from records)
- 1 in 234K (inferred from the name graph)
1,423 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
- Old Polishdąb(inferred from the name graph)via dąb
- Proto-Slavic*dǫbъ(inferred from the name graph)via dąb
Steps marked ◐ come from the entry for the form named above them, not from this name's own sources.
From dąb (“oak”).
Sources 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Demby 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 1,423 | 1 in 234K | 1.4K | Demby | 40 |
| PL Poland | 147 | 1 in 260K | 77 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 27 | 1 in 378K | 27 | — | 1 |
| DK Denmark | 4 | 1 in 1.5M | 4 | — | — |
| FR France | — | — | — | Demby | 21 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | — | — | — | Demby | 2 |
1,423 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Albert Joe Dembyb. 1934SLSierra Leonean politician
- Constance Dembyb. 1939USAmerican multi-instrumentalist player and composer (1939-2021)
- Łucja Dembyb. 1950PLPolish film scholar
- Christoffer Dembyb. 1979SEaudio engineer
- Jamil Dembyb. 1996USAmerican football player
- Austin DembySLMinister of Health and Sanitation, Sierra Leone
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)
Attested in 14 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.4K | #19,114 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.4K | #19,117 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.4K | #18,473 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 77 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 77 | #36,650 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 70 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 70 | #38,849 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 27 | #20,252 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 4 | #71,946 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Demby mean, and where does it come from?
- From dąb (“oak”). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Demby?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈdɛmbi/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Demby have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.4 thousand people named Demby, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled demby.
- Where is Demby most common?
- Demby is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 234 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Demby?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,423 people named Demby in 2010, about 1 in 234 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/dembyThe 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, “Demby”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.