Despaigne
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/dɪspeən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Despaigne is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Cuba than in any other country.
- UYUruguay1 in 63K(measured from records)
- CUCuba≈1 in 85K
- PAPanama≈1 in 223K
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.
- Cuba (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 53 (measured from records)
- 1 in 63K (inferred from the name graph)
≈130 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
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.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Despaigne 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CU Cuba | #507 | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 85K | — | Despaigne | 20 |
| US United States | — | 109 | 1 in 3.1M | 144 | Despaigne | 53 |
| ES Spain | — | 84 | 1 in 595K | 84 | Despaigne | 25 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈64 est. | ≈1 in 973K | — | Despaigne | 11 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 54 | 1 in 63K | 54 | Despaigne | 2 |
| PA Panama | — | ≈17 est. | ≈1 in 223K | — | Despaigne | 7 |
| GY Guyana | — | 1 | 1 in 750K | 1 | — | 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)
- Louise de Herediab. 1848CUnot in their usual nameFrench woman, wife of José-Maria de Heredia
- Henri Despaigneb. 1869(1869-1918) of H. Despaigne Engineering Co 1919 Obituary
- Juan Buenob. 1957CUnot in their usual nameCuban rower
- Lázaro Martínezb. 1962CUnot in their usual nameathletics competitor
- Yordanis Despaigneb. 1980CUCuban boxer
- Oreidis Despaigneb. 1981CUCuban judoka
- Alfredo Despaigneb. 1986CUCuban baseball player
- Odrisamer Despaigneb. 1987CUCuban baseball player
- Robelis Despaigneb. 1988CUCuban mixed martial artist (born 1988)
- Saily Viartb. 1995CUnot in their usual nameCuban athletics competitor
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 16 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 144 | #125,089 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 109 | #150,452 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 84 | #31,123 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 84 | #31,054 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 54 | — |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 1 | #624 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- 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
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Despaigne?
- A machine transcription gives /dɪspeən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Despaigne have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 131 people named Despaigne in Cuba, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled despaigne.
- Where is Despaigne most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Despaigne is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 63 thousand people — even though Cuba holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Despaigne?
- In the United States, the national register counted 109 people named Despaigne in 2010, about 1 in 3.1 million residents.
- How common is Despaigne compared with other names?
- In Cuba, Despaigne is the 507th most common surname of 21,589 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/despaigneThe 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, “Despaigne” — the 507th most common surname in Cuba. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.