Darja

given name · Hungarian · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Darja is a given name, most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is the 44th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Hungarian and Czech, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: A transliteration of the Russian female given name Дарья (Darʹja).

rarermore common
  • RURussia1 in 185◐
  • BYBelarus1 in 199
  • UAUkraine1 in 278

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈190K ●

across 15 countries

#296 ●

of 16M given names

6 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
213 ●

3.4M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 185 ◐

Moldova

Spellings & scripts●

ДарьяCyrillic · Russian●5.7M records
DariaLatin · Polish●413K records
ᲓარინაGeorgian · Georgian●1.8K records
ดารียาThai · Thai●288 records
다리아Hangul · Korean●14 records
ԴարիաArmenian · Armenian●1 records

9 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Дарья in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, TR Türkiye and 6 more, Darina in CZ Czechia, BG Bulgaria, ES Spain and 3 more, Daria in PL Poland, US United States, NO Norway and 1 more and Dariya in IN India, PK Pakistan.

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●

A transliteration of the Russian female given name Дарья (Darʹja)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Darja is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
RU Russia#445,593,1942.1M rec.—#24Дарья199
UA Ukraine#621,135,0951.1M rec.—listedДар’я97
TR Türkiye#556163,6843.2K rec.——Дарья22
PL Poland#12689,850△11K rec.1 in 42690KDaria177
IN India—69,25816K rec.—195Dariya37
KZ Kazakhstan#6236,73770K rec.1 in 52037KДарья55
KG Kyrgyzstan#13822,7161.9K rec.——Дарья20
BY Belarus#4321,51114K rec.—21Дарья60
MD Moldova#76418,138△382 rec.1 in 18518KDar'Ja22
BG Bulgaria#12414,2663.4K rec.—351Darina96
US United States—11,82819K rec.1 in 28K12KDaria213
UZ Uzbekistan#21511,313429 rec.——Дарья18

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Hungarian12K30%
  • Czech9.8K24%
  • Estonian4.1K10%
  • Latvian3.8K9%
  • German2.2K6%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Hungarian12,21230%
Czech9,78624%
Estonian4,10010%
Latvian3,8129%
German2,2406%

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◐

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

  • Hungarian given name13K records spelled Darja13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Slovenia, Spain, Brazil, Latvia

    Languages: Hungarian, Spanish, Vietnamese

    Also written Dar'Ja, Dárja, Darjá, Darǰa

  • Estonian given name5.5K records spelled Darja3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Russia

    Languages: Estonian, Finnish

    Also written Darǰa

  • German given name4.2K records spelled Darja7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Germany, Netherlands, United States, Austria

    Languages: German, English, Western Frisian

    Also written Dar'Ja

  • Latvian given name4.1K records spelled Darja3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Russia

    Languages: Latvian, Lithuanian

    Also written Dar'Ja

  • a separate given name315 records spelled Darja3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Slovenia, Russia, Latvia

    Also written Dârja, Darǰa

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●

Darja is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In German, im 20. Jh. entlehnter weibl. Vom. slawischer Herkunft (russisch, bulgarisch, serbisch, kroatisch Darija, slowenisch Darja), weibliche Form von

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

  • In Latvian, Sievietes vārds

    as a wordTēzaurs.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●

0102030194019601980200021 · 1966

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Darja in naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls), India, 1926–2015
Yearrecords
19261
19313
19321
19331
19342
19351
19362
19371
19382
19391
19403
19413
19422
19432
19441
19456
19467
19474
19484
19497
19505
195111
19524
19536
19542
19558
195612
19575
19584
19598
19605
196112
19625
196313
19649
196513
196621
196711
196814
196911
197019
197116
197217
197310
19749
19754
19764
19771
19785
19794
19806
19816
19829
19838
19845
19851
19866
19873
19885
19895
19906
19914
19926
19931
19941
19956
19965
19974
19987
20071
20121
20151

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 72 years between 1926–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

196019802000Darja Švajger, b. 1965Dasha Zhukova, b. 1981Daria Werbowy, b. 1983Darya Ekamasova, b. 1984Darya Domracheva, b. 1986Darya Klishina, b. 1991Daria Dugina, b. 1992Aglaya Tarasova, b. 1994Daria Kasatkina, b. 1997Daria Bilodid, b. 2000

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 49 sources across 25 countries.

Official registers attesting Darja
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20086.2K#39
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20096.2K#40
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20106.2K#42
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20116.2K#41
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20126.2K#42
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20136.2K#40
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20146.2K#40
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20156.2K#40
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20166.1K#40
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20256K#33
SI Sloveniastat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank)—6K#79
LV LatviaPMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register)—3.3K—

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 · 226 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Darja?
We estimate roughly 190 thousand people bear Darja (counting its spellings and scripts) across 15 countries in our records.
In which country does Darja have the most bearers?
Darja is most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is most often spelled дарья.
Where is Darja most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Darja is densest in Moldova — about 1 in 185 people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
How common is Darja compared with other names?
In Russia, Darja is the 44th most common given name of 418,751 given names recorded there.
Is Darja a male or female name?
Darja 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 Darja mean?
Recorded meaning: A transliteration of the Russian female given name Дарья (Darʹja)
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

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, “Darja” — the 44th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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