Dario
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Dario is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country, where it is the 86th most common given name. Recorded meaning: From Greek. See )\Darius in main dictionary.
- ARArgentina≈1 in 556(inferred from the name graph)
- PYParaguay≈1 in 618
- ITItaly≈1 in 787
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.
- Argentina (inferred from the name graph)
- #724 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 341 (measured from records)
- 1 in 363 (inferred from the name graph)
≈82,000 people, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Croatia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
From Greek. See )\Darius in main dictionary. Feminine form: Daria.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Dario 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | #86 | ≈82,000 est. | ≈1 in 556 | 288 | Dario | 172 |
| IT Italy | #678 | ≈79,000 est. | ≈1 in 787 | 377 | Dario | 129 |
| CO Colombia | #87 | ≈34,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | 1 | Dario | 175 |
| ES Spain | #262 | 29,614 | 1 in 1.7K | 30K | Dario | 182 |
| BR Brazil | #521 | 26,435 | 1 in 8K | 31K | Dario | 169 |
| EC Ecuador | #112 | 19,232 | 1 in 879 | 19K | Dario | 78 |
| HR Croatia | — | 11,648 | 1 in 363 | 12K | — | 4 |
| PY Paraguay | #27 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 618 | — | Dario | 59 |
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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); the co-datosgov-candidates register; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INEC — civil registry names; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Dario 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 Portuguese, a male given name from Old Persian, equivalent to English Darius
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, do nome persa Darayavaush; fixado em filiação a Ser Dario
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In Swedish, Dario är den italienska formen av → Darius. En känd namnbärare är dramatikern och Nobelpristagaren Dario Fo (1926–2016).
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Colui che possiede ciò che è buono
as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
In German, männl. Vom., italienische Form von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
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)
- Dario Fob. 1926ITItalian actor, playwright, comedian, singer-songwriter, theater director, painter, and political activist (1926-2016)
- Dario Argentob. 1940ITItalian film director and screenwriter (born 1940)
- Dario Cantarellib. 1945ITItalian actor
- Dario Franceschinib. 1958ITMinister of Culture, Italian lawyer, writer, and politician (born 1958)
- Darío Grandinettib. 1959ARArgentine actor
- Dario Marianellib. 1963ITItalian composer
- Dario Nardellab. 1975ITItalian politician (born 1975)
- Dario Kneževićb. 1982HRCroatian footballer
- Dario Vidošićb. 1987AUAustralian association football player
- Alejandro Darío Gómezb. 1988ARArgentine association football 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 111 sources across 54 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 31K | #1,075 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 30K | #259 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 27K | #119 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 26K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 26K | #892 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 19K | #130 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 12K | #87 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 11K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 394 | — |
| IT Italy | ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend) | 2024 | 377 | #82 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2024 | 273 | #428 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 86 | #892 |
Reference works 8
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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
- Where does the name Dario come from?
- From Greek. See )\Darius in main dictionary. Feminine form: Daria. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- Is Dario a male or female name?
- Dario 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.
- What are other forms of the name Dario?
- In the etymology graph, Darius, Dariusz and Darek are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Dario have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 82 thousand people named Dario in Argentina, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dario.
- Where is Dario most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Dario is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 363 people — even though Argentina holds more of our records for it.
- What does the name Dario mean?
- Recorded meaning: From Greek. See )\Darius in main dictionary.
- How common is the name Dario?
- In Spain, the national register counted 29,614 people named Dario, about 1 in 1.7 thousand residents.
- How common is Dario compared with other names?
- In Argentina, Dario is the 86th most common given name of 119,825 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/darioThe 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, “Dario” — the 86th most common given name in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.