Dä
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Dä is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Algeria than in any other country, where it is the 67th most common surname. Recorded meaning: ‘Attainment’. Daiyu @ ‘Black jade’. See HUIDAI. Dandan °@ ‘Cinnabar’ or ‘cinnabar red’. Cinnabar is associated with loyalty and sincerity. The reduplication of Dan makes it more intimate and familiar.
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 27K(inferred from the name graph)
- MAMorocco≈1 in 104K
- EGEgypt≈1 in 306K
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.
- Algeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 51 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 27K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,600 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Algeria, 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 EG Egypt, DZ Algeria, US United States and 2 more.
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)
‘Attainment’. Daiyu @ ‘Black jade’. See HUIDAI. Dandan °@ ‘Cinnabar’ or ‘cinnabar red’. Cinnabar is associated with loyalty and sincerity. The reduplication of Dan makes it more intimate and familiar.
Sources 9
- 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
- A concise dictionary of first names
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
- Digital Pāḷi Dictionary
- A Frequency Dictionary of German
Attested across 30 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Dä 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DZ Algeria | #67 | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Da | 15 |
| US United States | — | 714 | 1 in 466K | 1.6K | Da | 51 |
| MA Morocco | #582 | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 104K | — | Da | 24 |
| EG Egypt | #533 | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 306K | — | Da | 37 |
| TN Tunisia | #474 | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 40K | — | Da | 13 |
| GY Guyana | — | 19 | 1 in 39K | 19 | — | — |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | — | 3 | 1 in 34K | 8 | — | — |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025). 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)
Dä is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In gmw-cfr, masculine nominative and accusative
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In gmw-jdt, there
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In sje, then
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)
- André Dae Kimb. 1996CAnot in their usual nameCanadian actor and writer
- Dae Won ParkKRnot in their usual nameresearcher (ORCID 0000-0002-7653-686X)
- Dae Hong JeongKRnot in their usual nameresearcher (ORCID 0000-0001-7869-5648)
- Dae Hyun LeeUSnot in their usual nameresearcher
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)
Attested in 1 sources across 0 countries.
Reference works 1
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
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 Dä mean, and where does it come from?
- ‘Attainment’. Daiyu @ ‘Black jade’. See HUIDAI. Dandan °@ ‘Cinnabar’ or ‘cinnabar red’. Cinnabar is associated with loyalty and sincerity. The reduplication of Dan makes it more intimate and familiar. Recorded by 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado and A concise dictionary of first names and 7 other sources.
- In which country does Dä have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.6 thousand people named Dä in Algeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled da.
- How common is the name Dä?
- In the United States, the national register counted 714 people named Dä in 2010, about 1 in 466 thousand residents.
- How common is Dä compared with other names?
- In Algeria, Dä is the 67th most common surname of 89,473 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/d%C3%A4The 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, “Dä” — the 67th most common surname in Algeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.