Dȃ
surname · Latin script
Dȃ is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Guyana it is the 23rd most common surname. Recorded meaning: ‘Attainment’. Daiyu @ ‘Black jade’. See HUIDAI. Dandan °@ ‘Cinnabar’ or ‘cinnabar red’. Cinnabar is associated with loyalty and sincerity. The reduplication of Dan makes it more intimate and familiar.
- GYGuyana1 in 39K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 466K
- ESSpain1 in 1.9M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Dȃ itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 306 (measured from records)
- 1 in 34K (inferred from the name graph)
714 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
St. Vincent & Grenadines
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Da in US United States, BR Brazil, ES Spain and 2 more and Ďã in DZ Algeria.
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)
‘Attainment’. Daiyu @ ‘Black jade’. See HUIDAI. Dandan °@ ‘Cinnabar’ or ‘cinnabar red’. Cinnabar is associated with loyalty and sincerity. The reduplication of Dan makes it more intimate and familiar.
Sources 9
- 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
- A concise dictionary of first names
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
- Digital Pāḷi Dictionary
- A Frequency Dictionary of German
Attested across 34 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Dȃ 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 | — | 714 | 1 in 466K | 1.6K | Da | 306 |
| BR Brazil | — | 166as Dae | 1 in 1.3M | 3.9K | Da | 8 |
| DZ Algeria | — | ≈33 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | — | Ďã | 9 |
| PL Poland | — | ≈30 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | 14 | Da | 3 |
| ES Spain | — | 26 | 1 in 1.9M | 91 | Da | 59 |
| GY Guyana | #23 | 19 | 1 in 39K | 19 | Da | 4 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | — | 3 | 1 in 34K | 8 | — | 5 |
714 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025). 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Dȃ mean, and where does it come from?
- ‘Attainment’. Daiyu @ ‘Black jade’. See HUIDAI. Dandan °@ ‘Cinnabar’ or ‘cinnabar red’. Cinnabar is associated with loyalty and sincerity. The reduplication of Dan makes it more intimate and familiar. Recorded by 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado and A concise dictionary of first names and 7 other sources.
- In which country does Dȃ have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 714 people named Dȃ, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled da.
- Where is Dȃ most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Dȃ is densest in St. Vincent & Grenadines — about 1 in 34 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Dȃ?
- In the United States, the national register counted 714 people named Dȃ in 2010, about 1 in 466 thousand residents.
- How common is Dȃ compared with other names?
- In Guyana, Dȃ is the 23rd most common surname of 15,834 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/d%C8%83The 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, “Dȃ” — the 23rd most common surname in Guyana. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.