Dadu

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Nanne in NL Netherlands, US United States, SE Sweden and 5 more, Dada in IN India, NG Nigeria, VN Vietnam and 1 more, Dad in GB United Kingdom, MY Malaysia, AF Afghanistan and 1 more and Dadi in TZ Tanzania, ES Spain, DZ Algeria.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ 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 5 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Dadu is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• a separate name12K records spelled Dadu3 spellings in the group

  Also written Dadú, Dādū

• English surname1.9K records spelled Dadu9 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States

  Also written Dadue, Dadü

• Spanish name441 records spelled Dadu5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Mexico, Brazil

  Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

  Also written Dádu, Dadú

• a separate name181 records spelled Dadu4 spellings in the group

  Also written Dãdû

• Georgian given name138 records spelled Dadu2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Georgia

  Also written Დადუ

38 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●

Dadu 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 men, hastily, pre- cipitately. Ti mehe wai mea dadu

  as a word·Vocabulary of the Mende Language

• In pi, third-person plural imperfect active of dadāti (“to give”)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Indonesian, die, a regular polyhedron, usually a cube, with numbers or symbols on each side and used in games of chance

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Asturian, die (polyhedron with symbols on each side)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In English, Synonym of Khanbalik.

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In mdh, plough; plow

  as a word·kaikki.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.

Over time●

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 84 years between 1919–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Stanislas Dadub. 1885FRFrench politician (1885-1971)
• Noora Dadub. 1981FIFinnish actress
• Vasile DaduRORomanian politician from Probota, Iași 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).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 167 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Dadu?

We estimate roughly 20 thousand people bear Dadu (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.

In which country does Dadu have the most bearers?

Dadu is most frequently recorded in Pakistan, where it is most often spelled dadu.