Dardan
given name · Albanian · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Dardan is a given name, most frequently recorded in Kosovo, where it is the 57th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Albanian and German, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Variant of Dardhan.
- ALAlbania1 in 15K◐
- XKKosovo1 in 578
- MKNorth Macedonia1 in 5.8K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈1.1K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 41 ●
- 1 in 5.8K ◐
across 13 countries
recorded for this name
1.8K records
Official registry-verified
North Macedonia
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Дардан in MK North Macedonia.
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●
Variant of Dardhan.
Sources 1
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| XK Kosovo | #57 | 817 | 255 rec. | — | 4.2K | Dardan | 10 |
| MK North Macedonia | #861 | 369△ | 1 rec. | 1 in 5.8K | 369 | Дардан | 3 |
| AL Albania | — | 209 | 154 rec. | 1 in 15K | 209 | Dardan | 41 |
| US United States | — | 174 | 152 rec. | 1 in 1.9M | 174 | Dardan | 30 |
| SE Sweden | — | 172△ | 33 rec. | 1 in 59K | 172 | Dardan | 12 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 163 | 102 rec. | — | — | Dardan | 16 |
| IT Italy | — | 111 | 112 rec. | — | 3 | Dardan | 6 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 85 | 169 rec. | 1 in 25K | 85 | Dardan | 4 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 79 | 25 rec. | — | — | Dardan | 9 |
| BE Belgium | — | 46 | 41 rec. | — | — | Dardan | 11 |
| RS Serbia | — | 28 | 13 rec. | — | — | Dardan | 7 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 23 | 18 rec. | 1 in 751K | 23 | Dardan | 5 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Albanian2.2K32%
- German1.3K18%
- English68810%
- Croatian5478%
- French4607%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Albanian | 2,213 | 32% |
| German | 1,279 | 18% |
| English | 688 | 10% |
| Croatian | 547 | 8% |
| French | 460 | 7% |
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●
Dardan 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 Breton, darder
as a wordDeshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (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.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1957 | 1 |
| 1959 | 2 |
| 1960 | 1 |
| 1961 | 2 |
| 1962 | 1 |
| 1963 | 1 |
| 1964 | 1 |
| 1969 | 8 |
| 1970 | 1 |
| 1971 | 5 |
| 1972 | 6 |
| 1973 | 8 |
| 1974 | 10 |
| 1975 | 6 |
| 1976 | 10 |
| 1977 | 10 |
| 1978 | 11 |
| 1979 | 17 |
| 1980 | 9 |
| 1981 | 32 |
| 1982 | 36 |
| 1983 | 57 |
| 1984 | 67 |
| 1985 | 71 |
| 1986 | 76 |
| 1987 | 101 |
| 1988 | 139 |
| 1989 | 151 |
| 1990 | 171 |
| 1991 | 475 |
| 1992 | 374 |
| 1993 | 274 |
| 1994 | 228 |
| 1995 | 205 |
| 1996 | 189 |
| 1997 | 182 |
| 1998 | 169 |
| 1999 | 146 |
| 2000 | 185 |
| 2001 | 118 |
| 2002 | 93 |
| 2003 | 65 |
| 2004 | 52 |
| 2005 | 33 |
| 2006 | 42 |
| 2007 | 52 |
| 2008 | 46 |
| 2009 | 29 |
| 2010 | 26 |
| 2011 | 26 |
| 2012 | 22 |
| 2013 | 17 |
| 2014 | 25 |
| 2015 | 8 |
| 2016 | 11 |
| 2017 | 21 |
| 2018 | 10 |
| 2019 | 11 |
| 2020 | 9 |
| 2021 | 14 |
| 2022 | 13 |
| 2023 | 14 |
| 2024 | 13 |
| 2025 | 12 |
XK ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) — 64 years between 1957–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Dardan Gashib. 1969XKKosovar politician
- Dardan Berishab. 1988XKKosovar basketball player
- Dardan Deharib. 1990MKMacedonian alpine ski racer
- Dardan Rexhepib. 1992SEProfessional footballer
- Dardan Mustafab. 1992SEfootballer
- Dardan Dreshajb. 1992NONorwegian association football player
- Regardb. 1993XKnot in their usual nameKosovo-Albanian DJ and record producer (born 1993)
- Dardanb. 1997DEGerman rapper
- Dardan Karimanib. 1998ALAlbanian footballer
- Dardin Shervashidzenot in their usual nameGeorgian nobleman
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 30 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | — | 4.2K | #105 |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1991 | 475 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1992 | 374 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 292 | #3,626 |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1993 | 274 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1994 | 228 | — |
| AL Albania | INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts) | — | 209 | #1,792 |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1995 | 205 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1996 | 189 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 2000 | 185 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1997 | 182 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 174 | #41,825 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 · 177 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Dardan?
- We estimate roughly 1.1 thousand people bear Dardan (counting its spellings and scripts) across 13 countries in our records.
- In which country does Dardan have the most bearers?
- Dardan is most frequently recorded in Kosovo, where it is most often spelled dardan.
- How common is Dardan compared with other names?
- In Kosovo, Dardan is the 57th most common given name of 6,371 given names recorded there.
- Is Dardan a male or female name?
- Dardan 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.
- What does the name Dardan mean?
- Recorded meaning: Variant of Dardhan.
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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, “Dardan” — the 57th most common given name in Kosovo. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.