Darco

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Darco is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 775K(measured from records)
  • ISIceland≈1 in 194K
  • ITItaly≈1 in 215K

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.

China (inferred from the name graph)

≈3,400 people, est.

Sources
116 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 194K (inferred from the name graph)

Iceland, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Darco 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.

Where Darco is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CN China≈3,400 est.≈1 in 415K—Darco1
US United States4291 in 775K479Darco116
IT Italy≈290 est.≈1 in 215K2Darco11
BR Brazil≈140 est.≈1 in 1.5M106—1
FR France≈75 est.≈1 in 908K45—1
FI Finland≈20 est.≈1 in 278K—Darco2
PY Paraguay≈18 est.≈1 in 402K—Darco1
IS Iceland≈2 est.≈1 in 194K1——

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; Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Darco is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Argentina, Honduras

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written D'Arco, Darço, D' Arco, Dârcô

  • French surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States

    Also written D-Arco, D'Arco, D''Arco, D’arco

  • Italian surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, United States

    Also written D'Arco, D’arco, D'Arcò, Dárco

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written D’arco, D'Arco

  • Chinese surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, United States

    Also written D'Arco

  • Indonesian surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, United States

    Also written D'Arco

28 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Darco 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 yxg, work the earth

    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)

Attested in 20 sources across 10 countries.

Official registers attesting Darco
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020479#47,689
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000446#45,227
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010429#49,087
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—154#45,388
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

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

In which country does Darco have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 3.4 thousand people named Darco in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled darco.
How common is the name Darco?
In the United States, the national register counted 429 people named Darco in 2010, about 1 in 775 thousand residents.

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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, “Darco”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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