Dario

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Darios in CR Costa Rica and Darío in UY Uruguay.

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 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◐

Dario is also recorded as 9 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Croatian given name87K records spelled Dario20 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Croatia, Philippines, United States, Italy

  Languages: Croatian, Macedonian, Bulgarian

  Also written Дарио, Darío, Dário, Darìo, Darió

• Italian given name74K records spelled Dario12 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Italy, United States, Philippines, Spain

  Also written Darius, Dàrìò, Darïo, Dariò, Ďàriò

• Catalan given name30K records spelled Dario3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Spain, Argentina

  Also written Darío

• French given name26K records spelled Dario4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, United States, Belgium, Italy

  Also written Darío, Dário, D'Ario

• a separate given name15K records spelled Dario4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Ecuador, Italy, Spain

  Also written Darío, Dário, Darìo

• English given name4.5K records spelled Dario122 spellings in the group

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

  Languages: English, Hindi, German

  Also written Drew, Dhruv, Darío

• Polish given name3.1K records spelled Dario5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Poland, United States, Italy, Spain

  Also written Darío, Dário, Dàrìò, Därïö

• Albanian given name2.4K records spelled Dario3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Albania, Italy, United States, Spain

  Also written Darío, Dârîõ

• Russian surname2.0K records spelled Dario59 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, Poland, United States

  Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Polish

  Also written Дарий, Дарій, Darius, Darii, Дарюс

57 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●

Dario 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 Portuguese, a male given name from Old Persian, equivalent to English Darius

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

• In Italian, do nome persa Darayavaush; fixado em filiação a Ser Dario

  as a name·Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

• In Swedish, Dario är den italienska formen av → Darius. En känd namnbärare är dramatikern och Nobelpristagaren Dario Fo (1926–2016).

  as a name·Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

• Colui che possiede ciò che è buono

  as a name·Il grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…

• In German, männl. Vom., italienische Form von

  as a name·DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

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●

EC INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) — 124 years between 1901–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Dario Fob. 1926ITItalian actor, playwright, comedian, singer-songwriter, theater director, painter, and political activist (1926-2016)
• Dario Argentob. 1940ITItalian film director and screenwriter (born 1940)
• Dario Cantarellib. 1945ITItalian actor
• Dario Franceschinib. 1958ITMinister of Culture, Italian lawyer, writer, and politician (born 1958)
• Darío Grandinettib. 1959ARArgentine actor
• Dario Marianellib. 1963ITItalian composer
• Dario Nardellab. 1975ITItalian politician (born 1975)
• Dario Kneževićb. 1982HRCroatian footballer
• Dario Vidošićb. 1987AUAustralian association football player
• Alejandro Darío Gómezb. 1988ARArgentine 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).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 1,028 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Dario?

We estimate roughly 108 thousand people bear Dario (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.

In which country does Dario have the most bearers?

Dario is most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is most often spelled dario.

How common is Dario compared with other names?

In Argentina, Dario is the 71st most common given name of 517,176 given names recorded there.

Is Dario a male or female name?

Dario 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 Dario mean?

Recorded meaning: From Greek. See )\Darius in main dictionary.