Daba

loc · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/dɑbə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Daba is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.

United States (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

Sources
109 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Daba counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Daba is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—250—32
CI Côte d’Ivoire—206—4
ES Spain—111—12
IN India—61—3
NO Norway—48——

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 2020; nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Daba is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Amharic given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ethiopia, India, United States, Israel

    Also written ዳባ, ደባ, ደበ, Deba, DeBe

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Dabā

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Dãba, Dâbâ

45 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Daba is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In tuw-pro, salmon

    as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)

  • In Galician, first/third-person singular imperfect indicative of dar

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In English, A language spoken in Cameroon.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In bik, love; affection; endearment

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In hvn, beat on with both hands

    as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

  • In bnt-pro, storm on lake; wave

    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)

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)

FormalDear Colleague,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 33 sources across 22 countries.

Official registers attesting Daba
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020250#81,574
CI Côte d’Ivoirenomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies—206#2,049
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010141#122,314
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—61#39,457
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—48#26,908
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—36#43,968
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—11#114,632
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 4

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

How do you pronounce Daba?
A machine transcription gives /dɑbə/ (IPA) for Hindi.
In which country does Daba have the most bearers?
Daba is most frequently recorded in the United States.

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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, “Daba”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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