Duse
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A demon or spirit
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/dus/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Duse is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- ITItaly≈1 in 136K(inferred from the name graph)
- SESweden≈1 in 190K
- GHGhana≈1 in 208K
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.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 60 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 136K (inferred from the name graph)
≈460 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
A demon or spirit
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Duse is read(measured from records)
Duse is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English29%
A demon or spirit
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Eleanora, Italian actress
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
- Hindi20%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Duse in Hindi.
- French14%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Duse in French.
- Italian10%
sobrenome vêneto do latim dux, correspondente ao italiano duce
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
- German8.1%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Duse in German.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Duse 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | ≈460 est. | ≈1 in 136K | listed | Duse | 20 |
| GH Ghana | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 208K | — | Duse | 10 |
| FR France | ≈66 est. | ≈1 in 1M | 8 | — | 1 |
| US United States | ≈55 est. | ≈1 in 6M | listed | Duse | 60 |
| DE Germany | ≈54 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | — | Duse | 27 |
| SE Sweden | ≈54 est. | ≈1 in 190K | — | Duse | 9 |
| BR Brazil | 20 | 1 in 11M | 29 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 13 | 1 in 646K | 13 | — | 3 |
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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; the xinhua-italian-manual register; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)
Duse 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 Romanian, third-person singular simple perfect indicative of duce
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Czech, masculine singular present transgressive of dusit
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In yka, sin, trespass, fault
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Sara Christina von Linnéb. 1751SEnot in their usual name(1751-1835)
- Eleonora Duseb. 1858ITItalian stage actress (1858-1924)
- Samuel A. Duseb. 1873SESwedish writer (1873–1933)
- Eugenio Duseb. 1889ITItalian actor (1889-1969)
- Carlo Duseb. 1899ITactor (1899-1956)
- Enzo Duseb. 1901ITItalian journalist and writer (1901-1963)
- Vittorio Duseb. 1916ITItalian actor (1916–2005)
- Vittorio Duseb. 1919ITItalian mathematician and head teacher (1919-)
- Jean-Noël Duséb. 1948FRFrench association football player
- Attilio DuseITItalian actor
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 12 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 21 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 20 | #194,891 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 17 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 15 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 14 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 13 | #50,156 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 12 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 10 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 9 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 8 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 2 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 1 | — |
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 Duse mean, and where does it come from?
- A demon or spirit Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Duse?
- A machine transcription gives /dus/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Duse have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 458 people named Duse in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled duse.
- How common is the name Duse?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 20 people named Duse, about 1 in 11 million residents.
What do you want to know about Duse?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/duseThe 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, “Duse”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.