Dar
loc · Swahili · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Dar is a name, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. It appears chiefly in Swahili and Arabic, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: probably from an Old High German stem for ‘spear’; possibly related to Dör- and dark/secret forms.
- TZTanzania1 in 790◐
- USUnited States1 in 5.4K
- PKPakistan1 in 24K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈98K ●
- 3 ●
- Sources
- 131 ●
- 1 in 654 ◐
across 16 countries
recorded for this name
96K records
Official registry-verified
Croatia
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Dra in US United States, IN India, ES Spain and 3 more, Daar in PK Pakistan and দূর in BD Bangladesh.
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●
probably from an Old High German stem for ‘spear’; possibly related to Dör- and dark/secret forms
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 61,432△ | 4.5K rec. | 1 in 5.4K | 61K | Dra | 131 |
| IN India | 43,739 | 86K rec. | — | 27K | Dra | 108 |
| TZ Tanzania | 35,697 | 1 rec. | — | — | Dar | 4 |
| EC Ecuador | 10,103△ | 5 rec. | 1 in 1.7K | 10K | — | 6 |
| BR Brazil | 10,004 | 0 rec. | 1 in 21K | 13K | — | 1 |
| HR Croatia | 6,466 | — | 1 in 654 | 8.7K | — | — |
| CR Costa Rica | 2,213 | — | 1 in 2.3K | 2.2K | — | — |
| PK Pakistan | 2,070 | 763 rec. | — | 7 | Daar | 82 |
| FR France | 2,070△ | 1 rec. | 1 in 33K | 2.1K | — | 1 |
| ES Spain | 1,707△ | 121 rec. | 1 in 29K | 3.9K | Dra | 18 |
| CZ Czechia | 1,128 | — | 1 in 9.5K | 1.1K | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 663 | 436 rec. | 1 in 15K | 663 | — | 12 |
Roughly 61K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 5.4K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Swahili36K2%
- Arabic9.5K1%
- Hindi7331%
- English4941%
- French3021%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Swahili | 35,703 | 2% |
| Arabic | 9,455 | 1% |
| Hindi | 733 | 1% |
| English | 494 | 1% |
| French | 302 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Dar 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 Arabic, Arabic: "haven of peace"; also a Hebrew name meaning "mother of pearl".
as a nameAfrican Names
mother of pearl.
as a nameAfrican Names
In Kurdish, Tree
as a wordkurdi.sh Kurdish personal names dictionary
In Portuguese, to give
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese
In Swedish, contraction of dagar, indefinite plural of dag; sometimes written da'r
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.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 2019 | 204 |
| 2020 | 209 |
| 2021 | 213 |
| 2022 | 221 |
| 2023 | 227 |
| 2024 | 239 |
| 2025 | 240 |
NO SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891) — 7 years between 2019–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Munir Darb. 1935PKPakistani field hockey player (1935–2011)
- Ilan Darb. 1937ILIsraeli actor
- Ishaq Darb. 1950PKDeputy Prime Minister of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan
- Aleem Darb. 1968PKPakistani cricketer and cricket umpire
- Aditya Dharb. 1983INnot in their usual nameIndian director
- KSHMRb. 1988USnot in their usual nameAmerican DJ, record producer and songwriter
- Angira Dharb. 1988INnot in their usual nameIndian actress
- Noam Darb. 1993ILIsraeli-Scottish professional wrestler
- Leema Dharb. 1993INnot in their usual nameIndian author
- Anuj DharINnot in their usual nameIndian activist, journalist
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●
Attested in 43 sources across 25 countries.
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (Tom II: C-D)
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 218 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Dar?
- We estimate roughly 98 thousand people bear Dar (counting its spellings and scripts) across 16 countries in our records.
- In which country does Dar have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 61 thousand people bear Dar in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled dra.
- Where is Dar most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Dar is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 654 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- What does the name Dar mean?
- Recorded meaning: probably from an Old High German stem for ‘spear’; possibly related to Dör- and dark/secret forms
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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, “Dar”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.