Darwish
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Bagdad, Milano, Buenos Aires
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈdɑɹwɪʃ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Darwish is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Egypt than in any other country. In Bahrain it is the 61st most common surname.
- SYSyria≈1 in 1.7K(inferred from the name graph)
- EGEgypt≈1 in 3.3K
- AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 3.5K
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.
- Egypt (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 238 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈31,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Syria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
Bagdad, Milano, Buenos Aires
Sources 1
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Darwish 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EG Egypt | #225 | ≈31,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.3K | — | Darwish | 132 |
| SY Syria | #75 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | — | Darwish | 50 |
| AF Afghanistan | — | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.4K | — | Darwish | 13 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #703 | ≈4,700 est. | ≈1 in 7.2K | — | Darwish | 79 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #140 | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 3.5K | — | Darwish | 124 |
| US United States | — | 1,439 | 1 in 231K | 2K | Darwish | 238 |
| BH Bahrain | #61 | ≈780 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | — | Darwish | 46 |
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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. 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)
Darwish 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 Arabic, holy man
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
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)
- Sayyid Darwishb. 1892EGEgyptian musician and composer (1892–1923)
- Adnan Darwishb. 1929SYSyrian writer
- Mahmoud Darwichb. 1941PSnot in their usual nameThe national Palestinian poet, and author (1941–2008)
- Ali Ashraf Darvishianb. 1941IRnot in their usual nameIranian novelist and short story writer (1941-2017)
- Zaki Darwishb. 1945PSPalestinian poet
- Nonie Darwishb. 1949USAmerican activist
- Ahmed Darwishb. 1959EGEgyptian politician
- Tiffanyb. 1971USnot in their usual nameAmerican singer
- Ramadan Darwishb. 1988EGEgyptian judoka
- Muhammad Ismail DarwishLBPalestinian politician
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 34 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2K | #14,490 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.4K | #18,961 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.1K | #22,174 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Darwish mean, and where does it come from?
- Bagdad, Milano, Buenos Aires Recorded by Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,….
- How do you pronounce Darwish?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈdɑɹwɪʃ/ (IPA) for Arabic.
- In which country does Darwish have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 31 thousand people named Darwish in Egypt, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled darwish.
- How common is the name Darwish?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,439 people named Darwish in 2010, about 1 in 231 thousand residents.
- How common is Darwish compared with other names?
- In Egypt, Darwish is the 225th most common surname of 306,210 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/darwishThe 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, “Darwish” — the 225th most common surname in Egypt. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.