Dàhlia
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Dàhlia is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Named 1791 after Anders Dahl, by Spanish botanist Antonio José Cavanilles.
- USUnited States1 in 28K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 12K
- GYGuyana1 in 31K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 207 (measured from records)
- 1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
11,696 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Dahlia in US United States.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Named 1791 after Anders Dahl, by Spanish botanist Antonio José Cavanilles.
Cited for this meaning 4
- Wiktionary
- 2500 noms propres devenus communs : dictionnaire étymologique (éponymes, antonomases et hypallages)
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
- Nordic Names
Attested across 31 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Dàhlia 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 11,696 | 1 in 28K | 12K | Dahlia | 207 |
| SE Sweden | 818 | 1 in 12K | 818 | — | 5 |
| ES Spain | 208 | 1 in 240K | 208 | — | 14 |
| NL Netherlands | 135 | 1 in 128K | 135 | — | 6 |
| FI Finland | 128 | 1 in 44K | 157 | — | 2 |
| DK Denmark | 103 | 1 in 57K | 103 | — | — |
| GY Guyana | 24 | 1 in 31K | 24 | — | — |
11,696 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Dàhlia mean, and where does it come from?
- Named 1791 after Anders Dahl, by Spanish botanist Antonio José Cavanilles. Recorded by Wiktionary and 2500 noms propres devenus communs : dictionnaire étymologique (éponymes, antonomases et hypallages) and 2 other sources.
- Is Dàhlia a male or female name?
- Dàhlia 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.
- In which country does Dàhlia have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 12 thousand people named Dàhlia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dahlia.
- Where is Dàhlia most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Dàhlia is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 12 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Dàhlia?
- In the United States, the national register counted 11,696 people named Dàhlia in 2020, about 1 in 28 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/d%C3%A0hliaThe 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, “Dàhlia”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.