Dağan
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Dağan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Hebrew דָּגָן (dagán, “grain, corn”), probably a metonymic occupational surname.
- NONorway1 in 304K(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 403K
- CZCzechia1 in 595K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 19 (measured from records)
- 1 in 304K (inferred from the name graph)
537 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Dagan in US United States.
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)
Borrowed from Hebrew דָּגָן (dagán, “grain, corn”), probably a metonymic occupational surname.
Sources 5
- 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Whats in a name = Unaitwaje a Swahili book of names
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
- Wiktionary
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Dağan 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 | 537 | 1 in 619K | 952 | Dagan | 19 |
| PL Poland | 95 | 1 in 403K | 53 | — | — |
| TR Türkiye | ≈36 est. | ≈1 in 2.3M | — | Dağan | 8 |
| ES Spain | 21 | 1 in 2.4M | 21 | — | — |
| CZ Czechia | 18 | 1 in 595K | 18 | — | — |
| NO Norway | 18 | 1 in 304K | 18 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 10 | 1 in 840K | 10 | — | — |
537 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; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); MVČR — living population register 2017; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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 Dağan mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Hebrew דָּגָן (dagán, “grain, corn”), probably a metonymic occupational surname. Recorded by 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 3 other sources.
- In which country does Dağan have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 537 people named Dağan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dagan.
- Where is Dağan most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Dağan is densest in Norway — about 1 in 304 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Dağan?
- In the United States, the national register counted 537 people named Dağan in 2010, about 1 in 619 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/da%C4%9FanThe 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, “Dağan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.