Dá
surname · Latin script
Meaning: inflection of dar:
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Dá is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country. In Brazil it is the 5th most common surname.
- UYUruguay≈1 in 160(inferred from the name graph)
- FRFrance≈1 in 590
- PYParaguay≈1 in 1.2K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- #52 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 399 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 164 (inferred from the name graph)
≈110,000 people, est.
of 19M surnames, spellings grouped
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Uruguay, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Da in BR Brazil, UY Uruguay, VE Venezuela and 3 more, 'Da in CH Switzerland and Dà in DZ Algeria.
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)inflection of dar:
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 30 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Dá 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | — | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 592 | 7 | — | 7 |
| VE Venezuela | #239 | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | — | Da | 56 |
| UY Uruguay | #9 | ≈21,000 est. | ≈1 in 164 | 1 | Da | 62 |
| DZ Algeria | — | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.5K | — | Dà | 21 |
| AO Angola | #171 | ≈8,600 est. | ≈1 in 3.8K | — | Da | 75 |
| PY Paraguay | #222 | ≈6,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Da | 52 |
| CH Switzerland | — | ≈2,900 est. | ≈1 in 2.9K | — | 'Da | 128 |
| US United States | — | 714 | 1 in 466K | 1.6K | Da | 399 |
| BR Brazil | #5 | 34 | 1 in 6.2M | 3.9K | Da | 313 |
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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Montevideo Open Data — Nombres por año y sexo (1940–2012); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)Dá is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Czech, third-person singular present indicative of dát
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Chinese, Hanyu Pinyin reading of 羍
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In dak, ask for, request, demand
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In cau-abz-pro, vein, sinew
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In bnt-pro, louse
as a wordBantu Lexical Reconstructions 3 (BLR3), Tervuren 2002/2003
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)- Da Yib. 1439politician
- Da Qidaob. 1530Ming dynasty person CBDB = 204729
- Da YunMing dynasty person CBDB = 131903
- Da WenMing dynasty person CBDB = 245643
- Da YongdingMing dynasty person CBDB = 245644
- Da XianMing dynasty person CBDB = 245645
- Da YingMing dynasty person CBDB = 245649
- Da MianMing dynasty person CBDB = 245650
- Da YinMing dynasty person CBDB = 245651
- Da BinMing dynasty person CBDB = 245653
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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Dá mean, and where does it come from?
- inflection of dar: Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Dá have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 115 thousand people named Dá in France, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Dá?
- In the United States, the national register counted 714 people named Dá in 2010, about 1 in 466 thousand residents.
- How common is Dá compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Dá is the 5th most common surname of 424,864 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Dá?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/d%C3%A1The 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, “Dá” — the 5th most common surname in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.