Duvenage

surname · Latin script

Duvenage is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Africa than in any other country.

  • ZASouth Africa≈1 in 14K(inferred from the name graph)
  • AUAustralia≈1 in 600Kfew records
  • NZNew Zealand≈1 in 1Mfew records

carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

South Africa (inferred from the name graph)

≈3,900 people, est.

Record sources
61 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)

South Africa, 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 in the world

(measured from records)

Duvenage 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 Duvenage is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ZA South Africa≈3,900 est.≈1 in 14KDuvenage61
AU Australia≈43 est.≈1 in 597KDuvenage38
DE Germany≈20 est.≈1 in 4MDuvenage21
GB United Kingdom≈19 est.≈1 in 3.4MDuvenage34
US United States≈11 est.≈1 in 29MDuvenage36
CA Canada≈10 est.≈1 in 3.9MDuvenage11
NZ New Zealand≈5 est.≈1 in 1MDuvenage6

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.

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)
190019201940196019802000Janet Smith, b. 1915Wayne Duvenage, b. 1960Dewaldt Duvenage, b. 1988
  • Janet Smithb. 1915ZAnot in their usual nameteacher; wife of Ian Smith, PM of Rhodesia
  • Wayne Duvenageb. 1960ZWSouth African businessman, entrepreneur and civil activist
  • Dewaldt Duvenageb. 1988ZASouth African rugby union footballer
  • Pieter DuvenageSouth African political and social philosopher

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).

Evidence

(measured from records)

1 register or reference work attests this spelling, across 0 countries.

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

In which country does Duvenage have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 3.9 thousand people named Duvenage in South Africa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled duvenage.
How common is the name Duvenage?
Mondonomo estimates about 3,900 people in South Africa have Duvenage as their first surname, about 1 in 14 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.

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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, “Duvenage”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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