Dacia
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: Greek: woman from Dacia, an ancient European country
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/deɪʃə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Dacia is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 123K(measured from records)
- GYGuyana1 in 4.2K
- JMJamaica≈1 in 38K
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
- 298 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.2K (inferred from the name graph)
2,697 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Greek: woman from Dacia, an ancient European country.
Sources 1
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Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
How Dacia is read(measured from records)
Dacia is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English72%
Greek: woman from Dacia, an ancient European country.
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An ancient region and former kingdom located in the area now known as Romania. The Dacian kingdom was conquered by the Romans and later named Romania after them.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
ancient kingdom, Roman province
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
- Spanish15%
Dacia (an ancient region and former kingdom located in the area now known as Romania. The Dacian kingdom was conquered by the Romans and later named Romania after them)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Dacia 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 | — | 2,697 | 1 in 123K | 2.7K | Dacia | 298 |
| PE Peru | — | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 108K | — | Dacia | 11 |
| BR Brazil | — | 264 | 1 in 802K | 289 | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 254K | — | Dacia | 46 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 290K | 1 | Dacia | 15 |
| GY Guyana | #266 | 179 | 1 in 4.2K | 179 | Dacia | 4 |
| JM Jamaica | — | ≈75 est. | ≈1 in 38K | — | Dacia | 12 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈41 est. | ≈1 in 119K | — | Dacia | 9 |
2,697 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); 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)
Dacia 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.
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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)
- Dacia Marainib. 1936ITItalian writer (1936)
- Dacia Gonzálezb. 1940MXMexican actress (born 1940)
- Dacia Valentb. 1963SOSomali-born Italian politician (1963-2015)
- Dacia Arcarázb. 1967MXMexican actress
- Dacia Dalla Liberab. 2000ITresearcher
- Dacia GrayberUSAmerican firefighter and politician
- Dacia HerbulockNZdirector of Science Media Centre in New Zealand
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 27 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2.7K | #6,061 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 289 | #10,894 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 264 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 262 | #20,873 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 250 | #22,100 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 210 | — |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 179 | #416 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1980 | 135 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1977 | 104 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1978 | 91 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1980 | 88 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1979 | 88 | — |
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
- What does the name Dacia mean, and where does it come from?
- Greek: woman from Dacia, an ancient European country. Recorded by Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular….
- How do you pronounce Dacia?
- A machine transcription gives /deɪʃə/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Dacia a male or female name?
- Dacia is a female 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.
- In which country does Dacia have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.7 thousand people named Dacia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dacia.
- Where is Dacia most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Dacia is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 4.2 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Dacia?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,697 people named Dacia in 2020, about 1 in 123 thousand residents.
- How common is Dacia compared with other names?
- In Guyana, Dacia is the 266th most common given name of 15,440 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/daciaThe 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, “Dacia” — the 266th most common given name in Guyana. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.