Daria
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A female given name from Old Persian
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/dɑɹiə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Daria is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country, where it is the 43rd most common given name.
- PLPoland1 in 426(measured from records)
- BYBelarus≈1 in 122as Дарья
- RURussia≈1 in 132as Дарья
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Daria itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Russia (inferred from the name graph)
- #150 (measured from records)
- 6 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 256 (measured from records)
- 1 in 185 (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,100,000 named Дарья, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Moldova
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Дарья in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, BY Belarus, Дар’я in UA Ukraine, Dar'Ja in MD Moldova and Darja in SI Slovenia.
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)
Of classical Greek origin: feminine form of the much rarer male name Darius. St Daria (d. 283) was a Greek woman married to an Egyptian Christian called Chrysanthus; they both lived at Rome DARIA DARIEN and were martyred under the joint emperors Numerian and Carinus.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Daria is read(measured from records)
Daria is one spelling over 6 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Ukrainian32%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Daria in Ukrainian.
- English17%
A female given name from Old Persian.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Russian14%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Daria in Russian.
- Spanish12%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Daria in Spanish.
- Polish5.9%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Daria in Polish.
- Portuguese5.8%
first/third-person singular conditional of dar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Daria, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Daria 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | #43 | ≈1,100,000 est. | ≈1 in 132 | #24 | Дарья | 231 |
| PL Poland | #159 | 89,850 | 1 in 426 | 90K | Daria | 184 |
| BY Belarus | #49 | ≈78,000 est. | ≈1 in 122 | 21 | Дарья | 66 |
| UA Ukraine | #74 | ≈62,000 est. | ≈1 in 709 | listed | Дар’я | 107 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | #82 | ≈21,000 est. | ≈1 in 905 | 37K | Дарья | 60 |
| MD Moldova | #295 | 18,138 | 1 in 185 | 18K | Dar'Ja | 24 |
| SI Slovenia | #81 | 5,984as Darja | 1 in 351 | 6K | Darja | 57 |
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: Bureau of National Statistics — birth registrations; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); Universal Dependencies Belarusian-HSE Corpus — Person Names (UD_Belarusian-HSE); e-services.md — living population register; SURS — resident population given 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)
Daria is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Of classical Greek origin: feminine form of the much rarer male name Darius. St Daria (d. 283) was a Greek woman married to an Egyptian Christian called Chrysanthus; they both lived at Rome DARIA DARIEN and were martyred under the joint emperors Numerian and Carinus.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In Italian, Dal persiano antico Dārayava(h)uš, 'possessore, ricco'.
as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani
In Arabic, learned, knowing
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In Swedish, Daria är en feminin form av → Darius eller av italienskans → Dario. Namnet, också i skrivvarianterna Darya och Darja, används i Östeuropa och kom till Sverige med ryska emigranter på 1800-talet. En grekisk martyr med namnet firas den 25 oktober i den katolska helgonkalendern.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
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)
- Daria Halprinb. 1948USAmerican author, dancer, and former actress
- Daria Nicolodib. 1950ITItalian actress (1950–2020)
- Dasha Zhukovab. 1981RUnot in their usual nameRussian model
- Daria Werbowyb. 1983PLCanadian model, artist, and photographer
- Darya Ekamasovab. 1984RUnot in their usual nameRussian actress
- Darya Domrachevab. 1986BYnot in their usual nameBelarusian biathlete and coach
- Daria Duginab. 1992RURussian journalist and activist
- Sonya Devilleb. 1993USnot in their usual nameAmerican professional wrestler and mixed martial artist
- Aglaya Tarasovab. 1994RUnot in their usual nameRussian actress
- Daria Kasatkinab. 1997RURussian tennis player
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 106 sources across 52 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 90K | #65 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 90K | #65 |
| MD Moldova | e-services.md — living population register | — | 18K | #67 |
| PL Poland | Ministry of Digitalization — Imiona nadawane dzieciom w Polsce (2000–present) | 2025 | 229 | — |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 220 | #961 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2025 | 202 | #492 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 8 | #11,418 |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What are other forms of the name Daria?
- In the etymology graph, Dasha, Daryna and Dariya are forms of the same name in other languages.
- Where does the name Daria come from?
- Of classical Greek origin: feminine form of the much rarer male name Darius. St Daria (d. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- In which country does Daria have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.1 million people named Дарья in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Daria most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Daria is densest in Moldova — about 1 in 185 people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
- How do you pronounce Daria?
- A machine transcription gives /dɑɹiə/ (IPA) for Ukrainian.
- Is Daria a male or female name?
- Daria 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.
- What does the name Daria mean?
- In English, A female given name from Old Persian.
- How common is the name Daria?
- In Poland, the national register counted 89,850 people named Daria in 2026, about 1 in 426 residents.
- How common is Daria compared with other names?
- In Russia, Daria is the 43rd most common given name of 472,143 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Daria?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/dariaThe 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, “Daria” — the 43rd most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.