Darragh
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Connected with dair, ‘oak’; used in modern Ireland and now increasing
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈdɛɹə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Darragh is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 68K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 90K
- USUnited States1 in 268K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 255 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 41K (inferred from the name graph)
1,239 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Iceland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Connected with dair, ‘oak’; used in modern Ireland and now increasing.
Sources 1
- Irish first names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Darragh, 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)
Darragh 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 | 1,239 | 1 in 268K | 1.3K | Darragh | 255 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈730 est. | ≈1 in 90K | 54 | Darragh | 137 |
| AU Australia | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 68K | 1 | Darragh | 97 |
| CA Canada | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 137K | 3 | Darragh | 81 |
| IT Italy | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 461K | — | Darragh | 11 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 42K | — | Darragh | 34 |
| IE Ireland | ≈71 est. | ≈1 in 73K | 315 | Darragh | 132 |
| IS Iceland | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 41K | 1 | — | — |
1,239 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present); SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; CSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–present); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)
Darragh is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
A name connected in meaning with dair, ‘oak’. It has been used from time to time in Ireland in modern times, but it is now on the increase.
as a nameIrish first names
In English, A male given name, variant of Dara.
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)
- Lydia Darraghb. 1728USAmerican spy (1729–1789)
- Cornelius Darraghb. 1809USAmerican politician
- Archibald B. Darraghb. 1840USAmerican politician (1840-1927)
- Jack Darraghb. 1890CACanadian ice hockey player (1890–1924)
- Harold Darraghb. 1902CACanadian ice hockey player (1902–1993)
- Dan Darraghb. 1946USAmerican football player
- Tina Darraghb. 1950USAmerican writer
- Judy Darraghb. 1957NZNew Zealand artist (1957 - )
- Mackenzie Darraghb. 1993CACanadian swimmer
- Rachael Darraghb. 1997IEIrish badminton 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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 26 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IE Ireland | CSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–present) | 2007 | 472 | #13 |
| IE Ireland | CSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–present) | 2009 | 462 | #14 |
| IE Ireland | CSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–present) | 2008 | 458 | #15 |
| IE Ireland | CSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–present) | 2006 | 429 | #15 |
| IE Ireland | CSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–present) | 2004 | 414 | #15 |
| IE Ireland | CSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–present) | 2010 | 403 | #16 |
| IE Ireland | CSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–present) | 2011 | 401 | #19 |
| IE Ireland | CSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–present) | 2012 | 389 | #20 |
| IE Ireland | CSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–present) | 2005 | 377 | #20 |
| IE Ireland | CSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–present) | 2013 | 365 | #18 |
| IE Ireland | CSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–present) | 2003 | 356 | #15 |
| IE Ireland | CSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–present) | 2014 | 347 | #21 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- How do you pronounce Darragh?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈdɛɹə/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Darragh mean, and where does it come from?
- Connected with dair, ‘oak’; used in modern Ireland and now increasing. Recorded by Irish first names.
- In which country does Darragh have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.2 thousand people named Darragh, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled darragh.
- How common is the name Darragh?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,239 people named Darragh in 2010, about 1 in 268 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/darraghThe 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, “Darragh”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.