Dubay

surname · English · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Dubay is a surname, most frequently recorded in Zimbabwe, where it is the 4th most common surname. It appears chiefly in English and Hindi, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Derived from French Dubé.

rarermore common
  • ZWZimbabwe1 in 10◐
  • ZASouth Africa1 in 872
  • CACanada1 in 3.6K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈112K ●

across 11 countries

#831 ●

of 21M surnames

2 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
348 ●

305K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 13K ◐

India

Spellings & scripts●

DubeLatin · English●896K records
ดูเบThai · Thai●299 records

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Dube in ZW Zimbabwe, IN India, US United States and 19 more and ดูเบย์ in TH Thailand.

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●

Derived from French Dubé.

Sources 1

Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Dubay is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ZW Zimbabwe#4773,228267 rec.—258KDube53
IN India#392101,852135K rec.1 in 13K102KDube129
ZA South Africa#3934,59534K rec.—listedDube98
CA Canada#25420,92718K rec.——Dube140
GB United Kingdom—13,32111K rec.——Dube114
US United States—9,13691K rec.1 in 36K9.1KDube348
AU Australia—3,2093K rec.——Dube78
DE Germany—2,2982.2K rec.——Dube74
TH Thailand—1,528733 rec.—#197,868ดูเบย์58
CH Switzerland—523△34 rec.1 in 16K523Dube8
IL Israel—482540 rec.——Dube4
IT Italy—450472 rec.—1Dube9

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English25K59%
  • Hindi6K14%
  • 5.9K14%
  • French1.3K3%
  • Spanish6882%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English25,12659%
Hindi6,03314%
5,91014%
French1,2753%
Spanish6882%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Dubay is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Hindi surname6.9K records spelled Dubay6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, United Kingdom, Canada

    Languages: Hindi, Bangla, Urdu

    Also written Dübãy

38 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Dubay is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Uzbek, Dubai (a city in the United Arab Emirates; the capital of Dubai emirate)

    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●

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 20 sources across 11 countries.

Official registers attesting Dubay
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020003K#10,072
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020102.9K#10,914
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020202.8K#10,936
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—190#2,389
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—147#47,165
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—87#31,193
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)200840#30,764
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—24#47,290
CZ CzechiaKdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end)—24#14,587
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20266—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—6#175,865
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—6#28,153

Reference works 2

  • Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (Tom II: C-D)
  • 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 · 49 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Dubay?
We estimate roughly 112 thousand people bear Dubay (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
In which country does Dubay have the most bearers?
Dubay is most frequently recorded in Zimbabwe, where it is most often spelled dube.
How common is Dubay compared with other names?
In Zimbabwe, Dubay is the 4th most common surname of 8,027 surnames recorded there.
What does the name Dubay mean?
Recorded meaning: Derived from French Dubé.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

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, “Dubay” — the 4th most common surname in Zimbabwe. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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