Darğa

surname · Latin script

Darğa is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From short forms of various Pomeranian Slavic personal names such as Dargorad and Dargoslav/Dargosław, from Proto-Slavic *dorgъ.

rarermore common
  • PLPoland1 in 139K(measured from records)
  • TRTürkiye≈1 in 316K
  • USUnited States1 in 561K

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.

India (measured from records)

694 people

Record sources
25 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 139K (inferred from the name graph)

Poland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin

(measured from records)

From short forms of various Pomeranian Slavic personal names such as Dargorad and Dargoslav/Dargosław, from Proto-Slavic *dorgъ.

Cited for this meaning 3

  • TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
  • Wiktionary
  • Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Darğa 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 Darğa is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India6941 in 1.9M694—4
US United States5931 in 561K620—1
PL Poland2751 in 139K140——
TR Türkiye≈260 est.≈1 in 316K—Darğa25
BR Brazil901 in 2.4M90——

694 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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)

Darğa is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Hindi name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India

    Also written Darga, దరగ, Daroga, Daraga

  • Russian surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia

    Also written Дарга, Darga

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.

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Darğa under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Darğa mean, and where does it come from?
From short forms of various Pomeranian Slavic personal names such as Dargorad and Dargoslav/Dargosław, from Proto-Slavic *dorgъ. Recorded by TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary) and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
In which country does Darğa have the most bearers?
In India, the national register counted about 694 people named Darğa, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Darğa most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Darğa is densest in Poland — about 1 in 139 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Darğa?
In India, the national register counted 694 people named Darğa, about 1 in 1.9 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, “Darğa”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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