Dañu
surname · Latin script
Dañu is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Mother of the Asuras, who are, therefore, called Dānavā.’ Abhidhānappadīpika, p. l 4 .
- ESSpain1 in 893K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 1.1M
- PLPoland1 in 1.1M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 20 (measured from records)
- 1 in 893K (inferred from the name graph)
315 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Danu in IN India, ES Spain.
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)Mother of the Asuras, who are, therefore, called Dānavā.’ Abhidhānappadīpika, p. l 4 .
Cited for this meaning 3
- Dictionary of Pali Proper Names Vol I (A-Dh)
- The Penguin book of Hindu names for boys
- Wiktionary
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Dañu 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | 315 | 1 in 4.2M | 315 | Danu | 5 |
| ES Spain | 56 | 1 in 893K | 56 | Danu | 12 |
| PL Poland | 35 | 1 in 1.1M | 24 | — | — |
| MX Mexico | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 8.3M | — | Dañu | 20 |
| CH Switzerland | 8 | 1 in 1.1M | 8 | — | 2 |
| DK Denmark | 4 | 1 in 1.5M | 4 | — | — |
| CR Costa Rica | 2 | 1 in 2.5M | 2 | — | 2 |
315 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Dañu 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 Asturian, damage
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.
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Dañu mean, and where does it come from?
- Mother of the Asuras, who are, therefore, called Dānavā.’ Abhidhānappadīpika, p. l 4 . Recorded by Dictionary of Pali Proper Names Vol I (A-Dh) and The Penguin book of Hindu names for boys and 1 other source.
- In which country does Dañu have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 315 people named Dañu, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled danu.
- Where is Dañu most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Dañu is densest in Spain — about 1 in 893 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Dañu?
- In India, the national register counted 315 people named Dañu, about 1 in 4.2 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/da%C3%B1uThe 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, “Dañu”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.