Dadá
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Dadá is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: variant of Daddow . 2 Iranian, Muslim: from a personal name based on Persian dāda ‘given’ (i.e. ‘gift of God’).
- HRCroatia1 in 211K(measured from records)
- SISlovenia1 in 263K
- FIFinland1 in 1.1M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 70 (measured from records)
- 1 in 211K (inferred from the name graph)
254 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Croatia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Dada in US United States, BR Brazil.
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)variant of Daddow . 2 Iranian, Muslim: from a personal name based on Persian dāda ‘given’ (i.e. ‘gift of God’). 3 Muslim, Indian: Hindu and Muslim, meaning ‘elder brother’ in Bengali, Sindhi, Marathi, and other Indian languages, and ‘(paternal) grandfather’ in Hindi and Urdu; also used as an honorific.
Cited for this meaning 8
- African Muslim Names
- The African book of names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
- Digital Pāḷi Dictionary
Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Dadá 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 | 254 | 1 in 1.3M | 1.5K | Dada | 70 |
| BR Brazil | 72 | 1 in 2.9M | 1.4K | Dada | 53 |
| HR Croatia | 20 | 1 in 211K | 21 | — | — |
| SI Slovenia | 8 | 1 in 263K | 8 | — | 2 |
| NL Netherlands | 6 | 1 in 2.9M | 50 | — | 4 |
| FI Finland | 5 | 1 in 1.1M | 31 | — | — |
254 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021); SURS — resident population given names. 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)Dadá 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 rmq, alternative form of dada (“father”)
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.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Dadá Maravilhab. 1946BRBrazilian footballer and manager (born 1946)
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)1 register or reference work attests this spelling, across 0 countries.
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 Dadá mean, and where does it come from?
- variant of Daddow . 2 Iranian, Muslim: from a personal name based on Persian dāda ‘given’ (i.e. ‘gift of God’). Recorded by African Muslim Names and The African book of names and 6 other sources.
- Is Dadá a male or female name?
- Dadá is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Dadá have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 254 people named Dadá, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dada.
- Where is Dadá most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Dadá is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 211 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Dadá?
- In the United States, the national register counted 254 people named Dadá in 2020, about 1 in 1.3 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/dad%C3%A1The 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, “Dadá”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.