Daki

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/dɑki/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Daki is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 114K(measured from records)
  • ESSpain1 in 212K
  • NONorway1 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.

India (measured from records)

559 people

Sources
43 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 114K (inferred from the name graph)

Switzerland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Daki 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.

Where Daki is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India5591 in 2.4M559Daki12
ES Spain2361 in 212K236—1
CH Switzerland741 in 114K74Daki3
BE Belgium61 in 2M6Daki4
NO Norway51 in 1.1M5—1

559 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Daki is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Morocco, South Africa, Belgium

    Also written Ďaki

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Ḏakī

  • Arabic surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Morocco, Spain, India, Algeria

    Also written Dàki, Dãķi, Dâkî, Dākī, Dakī

44 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Daki is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Basque, Third-person singular (hark), taking third-person singular (hura) as direct object, present indicative form of jakin (“to know”).

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In zlm, uphill work, climbing (of the sun rising towards its zenith; also of people scaling a hill together)

    as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

  • In Malay, dirty stuff that sticks to the body, clothes etc.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In zlm, dirty secretion on the body; dirt on the person

    as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

  • In Sundanese, dirt on the skin, dirty crust on the skin

    as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

  • In nij, what is climbed (mountain, other things)

    as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

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)

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)

Formalआदरणीया श्रीमती Daki जी,Respected Daki ji, (English)
Informalनमस्ते Daki जी,Hi Daki, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 18 sources across 10 countries.

Official registers attesting Daki
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—559#8,481
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—389#8,653
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—236#14,599
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—236#14,542
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)202474#13,920
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)20086#90,700
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—5#69,159

Reference works 4

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • 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

How do you pronounce Daki?
A machine transcription gives /dɑki/ (IPA) for Hindi.
In which country does Daki have the most bearers?
In India, the national register counted about 559 people named Daki, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled daki.
Where is Daki most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Daki is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 114 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Daki?
In India, the national register counted 559 people named Daki, about 1 in 2.4 million residents.

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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, “Daki”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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