Dalaï
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Dalaï is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. Recorded meaning: bearer’s or father’s profession is a broker.
- INIndia1 in 24K(measured from records)
- AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 132K
- KWKuwait≈1 in 174K
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 Dalaï 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.
- India (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 96 (measured from records)
- 1 in 24K (inferred from the name graph)
54,381 people
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
India
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Dalai in IN India, US United States, KW Kuwait and 4 more and ดาลัย in TH Thailand.
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)bearer’s or father’s profession is a broker
Cited for this meaning 1
- A Genealogists Guide to Indian Names A Reference for First Names from India
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Dalaï 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | #924 | 54,381 | 1 in 24K | 54K | Dalai | 96 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 1M | — | Dalai | 12 |
| TH Thailand | — | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 412K | register #189,292 | ดาลัย | 28 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 560K | — | Dalai | 3 |
| US United States | — | ≈91 est. | ≈1 in 3.6M | 5 | Dalai | 66 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈75 est. | ≈1 in 132K | — | Dalai | 3 |
| KW Kuwait | — | ≈17 est. | ≈1 in 174K | — | Dalai | 4 |
| QA Qatar | — | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 211K | — | Dalai | 4 |
54,381 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; SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present). 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 Dalaï mean, and where does it come from?
- bearer’s or father’s profession is a broker Recorded by A Genealogists Guide to Indian Names A Reference for First Names from India.
- Is Dalaï a male or female name?
- Dalaï 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 Dalaï have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 54 thousand people named Dalaï, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dalai.
- Where is Dalaï most common?
- Dalaï is densest in India, where the national register counts about 1 in 24 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Dalaï?
- In India, the national register counted 54,381 people named Dalaï, about 1 in 24 thousand residents.
- How common is Dalaï compared with other names?
- In India, Dalaï is the 924th most common surname of 1,492,515 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/dala%C3%AFThe 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, “Dalaï” — the 924th most common surname in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.