Dace
given name · Latvian · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Dace is a given name, with more bearers in Latvia than in any other country, where it is the 38th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Latvian and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: nickname from the fish, OFr dars; first attested Ralph Dace 1202 AssL.
- LVLatvia1 in 190◐
- ISIceland1 in 44K
- EEEstonia1 in 92K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈11K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 86 ●
- 1 in 190 ◐
across 11 countries
recorded for this name
2.4K records
Official registry-verified
Latvia
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Даче in RU Russia, TR Türkiye and Даце in UA Ukraine, KZ Kazakhstan.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
nickname from the fish, OFr dars; first attested Ralph Dace 1202 AssL
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LV Latvia | #38 | 9,889△ | 1.2K rec. | 1 in 190 | 9.9K | Dace | 86 |
| RU Russia | — | 625 | 486 rec. | — | — | Даче | 42 |
| US United States | — | 443 | 313 rec. | 1 in 751K | 854 | Dace | 79 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 224 | 145 rec. | — | — | Dace | 49 |
| SE Sweden | — | 62△ | 12 rec. | 1 in 165K | 62 | Dace | 11 |
| BR Brazil | — | 62 | — | 1 in 3.4M | 62 | — | — |
| EE Estonia | — | 46 | 8 rec. | — | 15 | Dace | 3 |
| NO Norway | — | 39 | 30 rec. | — | 242 | Dace | 13 |
| IE Ireland | — | 39 | 34 rec. | — | — | Dace | 13 |
| DK Denmark | — | 31 | — | 1 in 189K | 31 | — | — |
| ES Spain | — | 27 | 24 rec. | 1 in 1.9M | 27 | Dace | 14 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 21 | 12 rec. | — | — | Dace | 7 |
Roughly 9.9K people in Latvia bear this name (about 1 in 190). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Latvian14K60%
- English5K22%
- Portuguese9814%
- Spanish3742%
- German3271%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Latvian | 13,577 | 60% |
| English | 4,971 | 22% |
| Portuguese | 981 | 4% |
| Spanish | 374 | 2% |
| German | 327 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Dace is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latvian, Sievietes vārds
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In English, A shoal-forming fish of species Leuciscus leuciscus, common to swift rivers in England and Wales and in Europe.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, nominative/accusative feminine/neuter plural of dac
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, vocative singular of Dācus
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.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1953 | 5 |
| 1958 | 12 |
| 1961 | 6 |
| 1962 | 8 |
| 1963 | 5 |
| 1968 | 6 |
| 1971 | 5 |
| 1973 | 5 |
| 1974 | 5 |
| 1978 | 6 |
| 1980 | 6 |
| 1981 | 6 |
| 1983 | 9 |
| 1985 | 9 |
| 1986 | 10 |
| 1987 | 5 |
| 1990 | 6 |
| 1992 | 7 |
| 1993 | 15 |
| 1994 | 7 |
| 1996 | 9 |
| 1997 | 8 |
| 1998 | 10 |
| 1999 | 12 |
| 2000 | 8 |
| 2001 | 6 |
| 2002 | 6 |
| 2003 | 12 |
| 2004 | 16 |
| 2005 | 13 |
| 2006 | 16 |
| 2007 | 12 |
| 2008 | 15 |
| 2009 | 17 |
| 2010 | 13 |
| 2011 | 23 |
| 2012 | 21 |
| 2013 | 15 |
| 2014 | 13 |
| 2015 | 12 |
| 2016 | 13 |
| 2017 | 16 |
| 2018 | 9 |
| 2019 | 19 |
| 2020 | 10 |
| 2021 | 18 |
| 2022 | 13 |
| 2023 | 12 |
| 2024 | 16 |
| 2025 | 16 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 50 years between 1953–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Dace Akmentiņab. 1858LVLatvian actress (1858–1936)
- Dace Slagūneb. 1946LV(1946) director, screenwriter
- Dace Reinikab. 1958LVLatvian politician (born 1958)
- Dace Bonāteb. 1959LVSoviet and Latvian actress
- Dace Regžab. 1962LVLatvian female curler and coach (born 1962)
- Dace Liepab. 1966Latvian animator, film director, illustrator
- Dace Rukšāneb. 1969LVLatvian journalist and writer
- Dace Melbārdeb. 1971LVLatvian politician and historian (born 1971)
- Dace Sietinab. 1978NLDutch writer and graphic designer
- Dace Ruskuleb. 1981LVOlympic discus thrower
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●
Attested in 32 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register) | — | 9.9K | — |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup) | — | 9.9K | #34 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 854 | #29,477 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 758 | #30,735 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 741 | #29,904 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 723 | #12,267 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 443 | #16,702 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 242 | #4,150 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 228 | #16,702 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 62 | #11,789 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 62 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 60 | #7,508 |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 2026-09-12 data build · 124 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Dace?
- We estimate roughly 11 thousand people bear Dace (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
- In which country does Dace have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 9.9 thousand people bear Dace in Latvia, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled dace.
- Where is Dace most common?
- Dace is densest in Latvia, where the national register counts about 1 in 190 people carrying it.
- How common is Dace compared with other names?
- In Latvia, Dace is the 38th most common given name of 17,921 given names recorded there.
- Is Dace a male or female name?
- Dace is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Dace mean?
- Recorded meaning: nickname from the fish, OFr dars; first attested Ralph Dace 1202 AssL
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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, “Dace” — the 38th most common given name in Latvia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.