Dagon
surname · Latin script
Meaning: The main god of the Phoenicians
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈdeɪɡən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Dagon is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 90K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 1.3M
- CHSwitzerland1 in 75K
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 126 (measured from records)
- 1 in 75K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,200 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Switzerland
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)
The main god of the Phoenicians. Although at one time believed to be represented as half man and half fish, modern scholarship recognizes that the latter was the apkallu, while Dagan/Dagon was a grain god.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Dagon 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 90K | — | Dagon | 21 |
| FR France | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 203K | 42 | — | 1 |
| US United States | 251 | 1 in 1.3M | 295 | Dagon | 126 |
| CH Switzerland | 112 | 1 in 75K | 112 | Dagon | 12 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈51 est. | ≈1 in 4.2M | — | Dagon | 7 |
| IL Israel | ≈19 est. | ≈1 in 463K | — | Dagon | 11 |
| SG Singapore | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 872K | — | Dagon | 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)
Dagon is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Biblical name
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In enm, A slip or piece; a scrap, particularly of cloth
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In oj, be situated in (a certain place)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In odt, to dawn, become day
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Cebuano, a lucky charm
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)
- Gadi Dagonb. 1957ILIsraeli photographer
- Étienne Dagonb. 1960CHswimmer
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 17 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 295 | #71,297 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 251 | #76,533 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 231 | #77,222 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 112 | #10,090 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 68 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 52 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 51 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 46 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 42 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 40 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 39 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 31 | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Dagon mean, and where does it come from?
- The main god of the Phoenicians. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Dagon?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈdeɪɡən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Dagon have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.2 thousand people named Dagon in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dagon.
- Where is Dagon most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Dagon is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 75 thousand people — even though Philippines holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Dagon?
- In the United States, the national register counted 251 people named Dagon in 2010, about 1 in 1.3 million residents.
What do you want to know about Dagon?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/dagonThe 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, “Dagon”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.