Dacian
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Dacian is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Romania than in any other country. In English, recorded as a member of an ancient Indo-European ethnic group of Dacia.
- RORomania≈1 in 11K(inferred from the name graph)
- MDMoldova1 in 102K
- JMJamaica≈1 in 224K
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.
- Romania (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 76 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Romania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
DACIÁN, -Ă, dacieni, -e, s. n., adj. 1. S. n. Al treilea etaj al pliocenului din sud-estul Europei, caracterizat prin anumite specii de lamelibranhiate, gasteropode și mamifere, precum și printr-un complex de nisipuri, argile, gresii etc., conținând zăcăminte bogate de petrol și de lignit. 2. Adj. Care aparține dacianului (1), privitor la dacian. [Pr.: -ci-an].
Sources 1
- DEX online (dexonline.ro) - DEX '96 / DEX '98 definitions with etymology
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
How Dacian is read(measured from records)
Dacian is one spelling over 4 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.
- Romanian36%
DACIÁN, -Ă, dacieni, -e, s. n., adj. 1. S. n. Al treilea etaj al pliocenului din sud-estul Europei, caracterizat prin anumite specii de lamelibranhiate, gasteropode și mamifere, precum și printr-un complex de nisipuri, argile, gresii etc., conținând zăcăminte bogate de petrol și de lignit. 2. Adj. Care aparține dacianului (1), privitor la dacian. [Pr.: -ci-an].
as a wordDEX online (dexonline.ro) - DEX '96 / DEX '98 definitions with etymology
- English32%
pert, to Dacia
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
a member of an ancient Indo-European ethnic group of Dacia.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- French11%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Dacian in French.
- Spanish8.1%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Dacian in Spanish.
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.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Dacian 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RO Romania | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Dacian | 25 |
| US United States | 302 | 1 in 1.1M | 286 | Dacian | 76 |
| IT Italy | ≈83 est. | ≈1 in 755K | 1 | — | 2 |
| DE Germany | ≈39 est. | ≈1 in 2M | — | Dacian | 33 |
| MD Moldova | 33 | 1 in 102K | 33 | — | — |
| AT Austria | ≈31 est. | ≈1 in 286K | — | Dacian | 8 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 224K | — | Dacian | 6 |
| CH Switzerland | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 637K | — | Dacian | 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.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; e-services.md — living population register; ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Dacian Cioloșb. 1969RO64th Prime Minister of Romania (2015-2017)
- Dacian Vargab. 1984RORomanian footballer
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)
Attested in 15 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 286 | #29,353 |
| MD Moldova | e-services.md — living population register | — | 33 | #1,604 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2012 | 21 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2007 | 20 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2011 | 17 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2006 | 17 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 16 | #29,353 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2009 | 16 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2005 | 16 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2013 | 15 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2008 | 15 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2003 | 14 | — |
Reference works 1
- 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
- What does the name Dacian mean?
- In English, a member of an ancient Indo-European ethnic group of Dacia.
- Is Dacian a male or female name?
- Dacian is a male 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 Dacian have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.0 thousand people named Dacian in Romania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dacian.
- How common is the name Dacian?
- In the United States, the national register counted 302 people named Dacian in 2020, about 1 in 1.1 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/dacianThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Dacian”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.