Name

Name DAME

Between 1900 and 2022 there were 171 births of Dame in the countries below, which represents an average of 1 births of children bearing the first name Dame per year on average throughout this period.
On the last available year for each country, we count 6 births.

Other languages :
En Français

Prénom Dame
In Italiano

Nome Dame

Information about the first name Dame

The first name Dame has been assigned to:

53.80% to boys
46.20% to girls

The country where the first name Dame is the most common is:

Argentina

This first name is on trend: Both (Unisex)

This first name has 4 letters including 2 vowels and 2 consonants

Anagrams of the first name Dame

An anagram is a word that contains the same letters of another word. Here is the list of first names which are an anagram of Dame : Adem, Adèm, Adme, Amed, Daem, Deam, Dema, Edam, Edma, Emad, Made, Madé, Mead, Meda

Anacyclics of the first name Dame

An anacyclic is a word or phrase that can be read in the normal sense of reading or in the opposite direction. Here is the list of names that are anonymous of the given name Dame: Emad

Dame in Japanese ^*

Romaji	deimu
Katakana	デーム
Hiragana	でーむ
* This is a phonetic conversion, not a translation.
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Dame in binary language

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Origin and meaning of name Dame

English

Etymology

From Middle English dame, dam (“noble lady”), from Old French dame (“lady; term of address for a woman; the queen in card games and chess”), from Latin domina (“mistress of the house”), feminine form of dominus (“lord, master, ruler; owner of a residence”), or from Latin domus (“home, house”). Doublet of domina and donna.

Anagrams

ADEM, ADME, Adem, Edam, MEDA, Mead, made, mead

Noun

dame (plural dames)
(Britain) Usually capitalized as Dame: a title equivalent to Sir for a female knight.
(Britain) A matron at a school, especially Eton College.
(Britain, theater) In traditional pantomime: a melodramatic female often played by a man in drag.
(US, dated, informal, slightly derogatory) A woman.
(archaic) A lady, a woman.
(chess, slang) A queen.

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /deɪm/
Rhymes: -eɪm

Verb

dame (third-person singular simple present dames, present participle daming, simple past and past participle damed)
To make a dame.

Noun (Coordinate terms)

Sir
(titles) (of a man): Mr (Mister, mister), Sir (sir); (of a woman): Ms (Miz, mizz), Mrs (Mistress, mistress), Miss (miss), Dame (dame), Madam (madam, ma'am); (of a non-binary person): Mx (Mixter); (see also): Dr (Doctor, doctor) (Category: en:Titles)

Noun (Derived terms)

beldame
dame school
damehood
damely
daming
hake's-dame

Noun (See also)

knight
madam
madame
sir

Noun (Synonyms)

See Thesaurus:woman

Middle English

Etymology

From Old French dame, from Latin domina.

Etymology (Alternative forms)

damme, dam

Etymology (Noun)

dame (plural dames)
lady (high-ranking or noble woman):
abbess (governor of a nunnery)
(rare) A female anchorite (with servants)
A housewife (mistress of a family)
A mother (of humans, animals, or plants)
A term of address for a noble lady.
A respectful term of address for any woman (sometimes sarcastic).

Etymology (Pronunciation)

IPA(key): /ˈdaːm(ə)/, /ˈdam(ə)/

Etymology (Noun)

dame
Alternative form of dam (“dam”)

Etymology (Noun)

dame
Alternative form of damey

Etymology (Noun)

dame
(when preceding labials) Alternative form of dan

Etymology (Verb)

dame
Alternative form of dampnen

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French dame, from Late Latin domna, shortened variant of Latin domina.

Old French

Etymology

From Late Latin domna, shortened variant of Latin domina.

French

Interjection

dame
(dated) why, indeed

Noun

dame f (plural dames)
lady
(chess, card games) queen
(in the plural) draughts (UK), checkers (US)

Pronunciation

IPA(key): /dam/
Rhymes: -am

Old French

Noun

dame f (oblique plural dames, nominative singular dame, nominative plural dames)
lady; woman

Pronunciation

IPA(key): /ˈdamə/
Rhymes: -amə

French

Noun (Descendants)

→ Catalan: dama
→ Friulian: dame
→ Galician: dama
→ German: Dame
→ Italian: dama→ Ottoman Turkish: دامه‎ (dama)Turkish: dama→ Armenian: տամա (tama)
→ Polish: dama
→ Portuguese: dama
→ Romanian: damă
→ Spanish: dama

Noun (Synonyms)

de, lady, madame

Noun (Usage notes)

Occasionally, in very formal or official registers, dame can be used as a title with a woman's name, for example dame Jeanne Dupont. Normal usage would be Madame Jeanne Dupont.

Old French

Noun (Usage notes)

Unlike in modern French, fame usually refers to a wife, while dame refers to a woman.

General

Noun

Dame (plural Dames)
(Britain) The titular prefix given to a female knight

Noun

dame f or m (definite singular dama or damen, indefinite plural damer, definite plural damene)
a lady, woman
(romantic relationship) a girlfriend
(card games) a queen

Spanish

Pronunciation

IPA(key): /ˈdame/ [ˈd̪a.me]
Rhymes: -ame
Syllabification: da‧me

Verb

dame
inflection of dar:
second-person singular imperative combined with me
second-person singular voseo imperative combined with me

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch dame, from Middle Dutch dame, from Middle French dame, from Old French dame, from Latin domina.

Noun

dame (plural dames, diminutive dametjie)
lady
(chess) queen

Romanian

Noun

dame f
inflection of damă:
indefinite plural
indefinite genitive/dative singular

Pronunciation

IPA(key): [ˈdame]

Italian

Anagrams

Meda, meda

Noun

dame f
plural of dama

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch dame, from Middle French dame, from Old French dame, from Latin domina.

Anagrams

adem, made

Noun

dame f (plural dames, diminutive dametje n)
lady
noblewoman
Polite term or title of address for any (adult or adolescent) woman.
(chess, card games) queen
Synonym: koningin

Pronunciation

IPA(key): /ˈdaː.mə/
Hyphenation: da‧me
Rhymes: -aːmə

Noun (Derived terms)

damesblad
damesfiets
dameskapper
dameskleding
damestoilet
dameszadel
eredame
hofdame

Noun (Descendants)

Afrikaans: dame

Noun (Related terms)

madam

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from French dame (“lady”).

Noun

dame c (singular definite damen, plural indefinite damer)
(polite) lady, woman (adult female)
lady (adult female with a cultivated appearance)
(informal) girlfriend
(card games) queen

Pronunciation

IPA(key): /daːmə/, [ˈd̥æːmə]

Noun (Derived terms)

damet (“ladyish, ladylike”)

Noun (See also)

dame on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia da
Dame (kort) on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia da

German

Etymology

From French dame, from Latin domina (“mistress, lady”). Cognate with English dame.

Noun

Dame f or n (strong, genitive Dame or Dames, no plural)
(board games) draughts; checkers
Synonyms: Damespiel n, Damenspiel n

Pronunciation

IPA(key): /ˈdaːmə/
Hyphenation: Da‧me

Noun (Derived terms)

Schlagdame

Noun (Usage notes)

The word rarely ever appears with articles, determiners, or adjectives. When it does, some speakers may construe it as feminine, others as neuter. In formal style, Damespiel is preferable in such contexts.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

dame f (definite singular dama, indefinite plural damer, definite plural damene)
a lady, woman
(romantic relationship) a girlfriend
(card games) a queen

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin domina, via Old French dame and late Old Norse damma.

Popularity of the name Dame

Number of DAME births per year

Popularity of the name Dame

Total births of Dame by country

		Births with the first name Dame
Country		Boys Girls
	Argentina 1922 - 2015	0 77
	Italy 1999 - 2021	51 1
	France 1900 - 2022	28 0
	Switzerland 1909 - 2021	10 0
	Quebec 1980 - 2022	2 0
	Czechoslovakia 1900 - 2016	0 1
	Slovakia 2011 - 2022	1 0