دا
surname · Arabic script
Meaning: alternative spelling of ادى (edda)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
دا is a surname written in the Arabic script, with more bearers in Egypt than in any other country.
- EGEgypt≈1 in 26K(inferred from the name graph)
- SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 254K
- KWKuwait≈1 in 296K
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.
- Egypt (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 11 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 26K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Egypt, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
alternative spelling of ادى (edda)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
دا 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EG Egypt | #940 | ≈4,000 est. | ≈1 in 26K | دا | 11 |
| IR Iran | — | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 550K | دا | 6 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 254K | دا | 5 |
| SD Sudan | — | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 350K | دا | 2 |
| SY Syria | — | ≈34 est. | ≈1 in 570K | دا | 4 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈21 est. | ≈1 in 481K | دا | 4 |
| KW Kuwait | — | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 296K | دا | 3 |
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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
دا is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Pashto, she (visible feminine singular third person)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Central Kurdish, an element of several circumpositions
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In bqi, mother
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Punjabi, trick
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In shu, this
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(measured from records)
- Meng Dab. 150CNnot in their usual nameState of Cao Wei general (died 228)
- Xu Dab. 1332CNnot in their usual nameMing Dynasty founding general, father of Empress Xu of Yongle Emperor (1332-1385)
- Li Dab. 1890CNnot in their usual nameChinese Marxist philosopher (1890–1960)
- Chen Dab. 1892CNnot in their usual nameChinese sociologist
- Da Xiangb. 1900CNnot in their usual nameChinese historian
- Huang Dab. 1925CNnot in their usual nameChinese economist (1925–2023)
- Chen Dab. 1937CNnot in their usual nameChinese nuclear scientist (1937-2016)
- Da Chenb. 1962USnot in their usual nameAmerican writer (1962–2019)
- Yang Danot in their usual nameTang dynasty person CBDB = 162128
- Li Danot in their usual nameTang dynasty person CBDB = 175114
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)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name دا mean, and where does it come from?
- alternative spelling of ادى (edda) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does دا have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.0 thousand people named دا in Egypt, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled دا.
- How common is the name دا?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4,000 people in Egypt have دا as their first surname, about 1 in 26 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
- How common is دا compared with other names?
- In Egypt, دا is the 940th most common surname of 306,210 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about دا?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%D8%AF%D8%A7The payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “دا” — the 940th most common surname in Egypt. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.