Dragu
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from Slavic dragu 'dear, beloved'
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/draɡu/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Dragu is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Romania than in any other country.
- RORomania≈1 in 4.8K(inferred from the name graph)
- ITItaly≈1 in 196K
- ESSpain1 in 211K
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.
- Romania (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 65 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,500 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Romania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from Slavic dragu 'dear, beloved'
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Dragu 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RO Romania | #340 | ≈4,500 est. | ≈1 in 4.8K | — | Dragu | 64 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 196K | — | Dragu | 21 |
| ES Spain | — | 237 | 1 in 211K | 237 | Dragu | 16 |
| US United States | — | ≈81 est. | ≈1 in 4.1M | listed | Dragu | 65 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈32 est. | ≈1 in 2M | — | Dragu | 29 |
| SE Sweden | — | 29 | 1 in 352K | 29 | Dragu | 8 |
| NO Norway | — | 12 | 1 in 456K | 12 | — | 4 |
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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Dragu 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 scn, dragon
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)
- Teodor Dragub. 1848RORomanian engineer
- Aureliu Dragub. 1880RORomanian notary
- Ion Dragub. 1889RODragu, Ioan, 1889-1977
- Margaret Dragub. 1953CACanadian artist (born 1953)
- Anca Dragub. 1972RORomanian economist and politician (born 1962)
- Claudiu Dragub. 1992ROfootballer
- Andrei Dragub. 1999ROfootballer
- Ion DraguRORomanian politician from Baba Ana, Prahova County
- Ionel DraguRORomanian politician from Măldărești, Vâlcea County
- Dumitru DraguRORomanian politician from Târgușor, Constanța County
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 13 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 237 | #14,550 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 237 | #14,492 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 29 | #19,331 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 12 | #51,806 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Dragu mean, and where does it come from?
- from Slavic dragu 'dear, beloved' Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- How do you pronounce Dragu?
- A machine transcription gives /draɡu/ (IPA) for Romanian.
- In which country does Dragu have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.5 thousand people named Dragu in Romania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dragu.
- How common is the name Dragu?
- In Spain, the national register counted 237 people named Dragu, about 1 in 211 thousand residents.
- How common is Dragu compared with other names?
- In Romania, Dragu is the 340th most common surname of 78,699 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/draguThe 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, “Dragu” — the 340th most common surname in Romania. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.