Darina

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Дарья in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, TR Türkiye and 6 more, Daria in PL Poland, US United States, NO Norway and 1 more, Dariya in IN India, PK Pakistan and Darija in HR Croatia, SI Slovenia.

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●

Attested across 9 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◐

Darina is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• English given name8.5K records spelled Darina6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Germany, United Kingdom, Australia

  Languages: English, German, Dutch

  Also written Dàriňa

• Latvian given name598 records spelled Darina2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Latvia, Russia

  Also written Darīna

37 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●

Darina 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 Latvian, Sievietes vārds

  as a word·Tēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

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●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 45 years between 1948–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Iryna Vildeb. 1907UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian writer (1907–1982)
• Darina Takovab. 1963BGBulgarian opera singer
• Darina Al Joundib. 1968LBFrench-Lebanese actor
• Dara Rolinsb. 1972SKnot in their usual nameSlovak recording artist and entrepreneur
• Darina Mifkovab. 1974ITItalian volleyball player
• Darina Ničováb. 1981CZCzech actress and writer
• Daryna Apanashchenkob. 1986UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian footballer
• Daryna Zevinab. 1994UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian swimmer
• Darab. 1998BGnot in their usual nameBulgarian singer-songwriter (born 1998)
• Daryna AbbakumovaUAnot in their usual nameUkrainian jurist

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 · 302 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Darina?

We estimate roughly 190 thousand people bear Darina (counting its spellings and scripts) across 15 countries in our records.

In which country does Darina have the most bearers?

Darina is most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is most often spelled дарья.

Where is Darina most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Darina is densest in Moldova — about 1 in 185 people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.

How common is Darina compared with other names?

In Russia, Darina is the 44th most common given name of 418,751 given names recorded there.

Is Darina a male or female name?

Darina is a female 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 Darina mean?

Recorded meaning: weibl. Vom., Ableitung von russisch bzw.