Dem Surname

22,170th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 24,533 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Bhutan
Highest density in:
Bhutan

Dem Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Dem Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Bhutan5,1561:11923
Mali4,1951:4,045289
Mauritania3,3691:1,215161
Gambia3,0881:623114
Burkina Faso1,8901:9,710900
Senegal1,3181:11,062392
Guinea1,1401:10,381347
Nigeria8241:214,97912,767
Moldova4101:8,6861,442
Turkey3261:238,71616,779
France2601:255,47239,438
India2521:3,043,91090,807
Cameroon2461:84,42710,261
Morocco2391:144,25125,171
United States2161:1,678,051111,588
Ivory Coast1971:117,1135,838
Romania1441:139,43014,992
Cambodia1331:116,4452,516
Papua New Guinea1011:80,73010,659
Iran781:984,39145,758
Taiwan741:316,8212,543
South Africa731:742,16051,964
Indonesia701:1,889,274120,273
Palestine591:77,0996,249
Poland561:678,72858,421
Austria481:177,40522,887
Malaysia421:702,24333,141
Canada311:1,188,56786,017
Northern Cyprus311:10,2912,613
Ukraine301:1,517,423120,367
England281:1,989,93178,001
Portugal281:372,08012,265
Germany251:3,220,218147,383
Belgium221:522,57550,051
DR Congo211:3,518,075145,665
Yemen181:1,468,07212,178
Afghanistan171:1,891,36413,978
Philippines171:5,955,190180,670
Brazil161:13,379,646256,605
Ethiopia161:6,096,64111,907
Sudan161:2,344,3874,438
Liberia151:293,90216,977
Italy141:4,368,335106,343
Australia111:2,454,155103,534
United Arab Emirates111:832,93427,512
Vietnam111:8,422,3692,636
Thailand101:7,063,834426,148
Malawi91:1,902,12319,532
Tunisia91:67,8478,246
Congo81:623,63715,053
Lebanon81:704,63514,756
Pakistan81:22,330,48677,733
Mexico61:20,687,70153,861
Argentina51:8,548,683204,003
China51:273,464,31313,838
Sweden51:1,969,351134,077
Algeria41:9,657,88864,782
Chile41:4,404,11844,633
Ghana41:6,755,17315,406
Mongolia41:706,32211,365
Spain41:11,688,009116,470
Greece31:3,693,263126,191
Guatemala31:5,360,8898,925
Israel31:2,852,545113,505
Netherlands31:5,629,059132,535
Switzerland31:2,737,638105,941
Bulgaria21:3,489,45264,958
Czechia21:5,316,734169,646
Jamaica21:1,434,97411,081
Kazakhstan21:8,841,248174,813
Kenya21:23,089,95083,168
Lithuania21:1,517,29435,813
South Korea21:25,620,1284,175
Trinidad and Tobago21:681,98817,017
Ireland11:4,708,93929,543
Albania11:2,914,05529,474
Azerbaijan11:9,649,12247,873
Belize11:355,4743,977
Colombia11:47,774,07244,230
Croatia11:4,228,60499,289
Grenada11:108,5351,793
Japan11:127,844,29373,547
North Macedonia11:2,101,47231,546
Montenegro11:639,5659,092
New Zealand11:4,528,32355,372
Niger11:19,192,017110,060
Peru11:31,784,12364,452
Russia11:144,123,056881,408
Rwanda11:11,364,9785,947
Saint Lucia11:178,7813,800
Saudi Arabia11:30,855,81763,028
Serbia11:7,144,94838,459
Sierra Leone11:7,089,6311,533
Singapore11:5,507,70347,049
Slovakia11:5,336,450140,422
Slovenia11:2,487,67531,128
Sri Lanka11:20,808,56018,521
Togo11:7,247,76812,049
Uruguay11:3,431,75838,295
Uzbekistan11:30,929,14267,786
Venezuela11:30,204,07785,459
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Scotland11:3,743,21632,299
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States111:4,565,335193,764

The alternate forms: Dém (40) & Dèm (4) are calculated separately.

Dem (5,481) may also be a first name.

Dem Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Dem Come From? nationality or country of origin

Dem (Bengali: দেম, Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺩﻡ, Hindi: देम, Marathi: देम, Oriya: େଡମ, Tibetan: སྒྲོལམ།) is found most in Bhutan. It can also occur as: Dém or Dèm. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Dem? popularity and diffusion

This last name is the 22,170th most frequently used surname internationally. It is borne by approximately 1 in 297,051 people. This surname occurs predominantly in Africa, where 67 percent of Dem are found; 65 percent are found in West Africa and 32 percent are found in Senegambia Africa. Dem is also the 90,733rd most prevalent forename at a global level, borne by 5,481 people.

The last name is most widespread in Bhutan, where it is carried by 5,156 people, or 1 in 119. In Bhutan Dem is mostly found in: Thimphu District, where 28 percent are found, Chukha District, where 25 percent are found and Wangdue Phodrang District, where 15 percent are found. Without taking into account Bhutan this last name is found in 100 countries. It is also found in Mali, where 17 percent are found and Mauritania, where 14 percent are found.

Dem Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The frequency of Dem has changed over time. In The United States the number of people bearing the Dem last name rose 1,964 percent between 1880 and 2014.

Dem Last Name Statistics demography

The religious adherence of those carrying the surname is principally Orthodox (89%) in Russia, Sunni (100%) in Lebanon and Orthodox (92%) in Ukraine.

In The United States Dem are 18.2% more likely to be registered with the Democratic Party than the national average, with 71.43% being registered with the political party.

The amount Dem earn in different countries varies notably. In South Africa they earn 2.03% less than the national average, earning R 232,824 per year; in United States they earn 6.58% less than the national average, earning $40,311 USD per year and in Canada they earn 24.09% less than the national average, earning $37,714 CAD per year.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Dém8940/
Dèm894/
Deme8688,572/
Diem8618,531/
Deem865,703/
Dehm862,133/
Deam861,243/
Deim86723/
Demh86218/
Demm86211/
Dhem86101/
Deum8693/
Deym8661/
Desm8627/
Dejm8625/
Demg8621/
Demd8611/
Ddem8611/
Demt863/
Demn861/
Hdem861/
Tdem861/
Detm861/
Diehm753,956/
Dheem752,426/
Demme751,203/
Dheme75491/
Dheim75380/
Deyme75333/
Desme75256/
Deahm7592/
D'Hem7581/
Deihm7580/
Deime7576/
Deeme7558/
Deame7557/
Demhe7543/
Demők7536/
Hådem7520/
Demne7519/
Dhemg7511/
Ddeme757/
Dhemm756/
Dhiem755/
Deemn754/
Dejme753/
Hdeem752/
Deymt751/
Demng751/
Deesm751/
Deemt751/
Değme751/
Demkë751/
Deitm751/
Ddhem751/
Demnn751/
Demqc751/
Demhd751/
Dheam751/
Dhdem751/
Hdeim751/
Deemm750/
Dim6726,824/
Den6721,923/
Demgne673,144/
Dym671,417/
Demova67320/
Demová67314/
Daheim67266/
Dîm6773/
Deisme6744/
Djm6740/
D'Heem6723/
Deggim6722/
Dne6714/
Deymeh6711/
Demgue677/
Djehem676/
Demåne675/
Deameh675/
Demowa674/
Deimeh672/
Demque672/
Thdeem671/
Dehiem671/
Deijme671/
Doheem671/
Deñ671/
Deimme670/
Dettme670/

Dem Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Dem in the Bengali language
দেমdema-
Dem in the Hassaniya-Arabic language
ﺩﻡdm98.03
ﺩﻳﻢdym0.98
ﺍﻟﺪﻡaldm0.37
ﺩﺍﻡdam0.37
ﺩﻭdw0.12
ﺩﻳﻪdyh0.12
Dem in the Oriya language
େଡମedama86.36
େଦମedama9.09
ଡିଏମdi'ema4.55
Dem in the Tibetan language
སྒྲོལམ།drolam68.81
སྒྲོལམོ།drolmo18.32
སྒྲོལ་མ།drolma3.94
སྒྲོམ།drom3.25
སྒྲོལམ་drolam2.55
སྒྲོནམ།dronam0.75
སྒྲོལམོ་drolmo0.52
སྒྲོམ་drom0.46
སྒྲོནམ་dronam0.23
སྒྲོལ་མ་drolma0.17
སྒྲལམོ།dralmo0.12
སྒྲོན།drön0.12
སྒྲོལ་།drol0.06
སྒྲོལམ་།drolam0.06
སྒྲོལ་་མ།drolma0.06
སྒྲལམ།dralam0.06
སྒྲོལམོdrolmo0.06
སྒྲོན་drön0.06
སྒློལམ།sglolam0.06
སྒྲམ་dram0.06
སྒྲོལམ།།drolam0.06
སྒྲེལམ་drelam0.06
སྒྲཽམ།draum0.06
ལྒྲོལམ།lgrolam0.06
སྒྲེམ།drem0.06
Dem in the Hindi language
देमdema58.06
डेमdema35.48
प्रेमprema3.23
डेमाdema3.23
Dem in the Marathi language
देमdema42.86
डॅमdema28.57
डेमdema14.29
देमा़dema14.29

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