Daddy
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Father (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 12 countries · latest register: Familienaam.be, 2008
/dˈaddj/(machine-generated) Indonesian · model-generated
Daddy is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country.
- NGNigeria≈1 in 77K(inferred from the name graph)
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 120Kfew records
- CRCosta Rica1 in 566K
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.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 156 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 77K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Nigeria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Daddy
- Indonesian:/dˈaddj/(machine-generated) model-generated
- Swahili:/ɗaɗɗj/(machine-generated) model-generated
- Spanish:/daddi/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Father.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Daddy 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 77K | — | Daddy | 34 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈520 est. | ≈1 in 123K | — | Daddy | 24 |
| IN India | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 5.4M | 10 | Daddy | 22 |
| US United States | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 1.4M | 7 | Daddy | 156 |
| PH Philippines | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 760K | — | Daddy | 13 |
| BE Belgium | ≈35 est. | ≈1 in 340K | 3 | Daddy | 10 |
| SE Sweden | 16 | 1 in 638K | 16 | — | 4 |
| CR Costa Rica | 9 | 1 in 566K | 9 | — | — |
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: SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present); the in-instate-surnames-bystate register; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)Daddy 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 English, informal for father
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper 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)- Daddy Stovepipeb. 1867USAmerican musician (1867-1963)
- Daddy Kevb. 1974UShip hop record producer
- Moses Simonb. 1995NGnot in their usual nameNigerian association football player
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)16 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 12 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Daddy mean, and where does it come from?
- Father. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Daddy?
- It depends on the language: in Indonesian /dˈaddj/; in Swahili /ɗaɗɗj/; in Spanish /daddi/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Daddy a male or female name?
- Daddy is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- Which countries have the most people named Daddy?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.0 thousand people named Daddy in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled daddy. After it come South Africa, India, United States and Philippines; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Daddy?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 16 people named Daddy, about 1 in 638 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Daddy?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/daddyThe 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, “Daddy”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.