Daru

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Dra in US United States, IN India, ES Spain and 3 more, Dar in TZ Tanzania, 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●

Attested in 1 language 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◐

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

• a separate given name3.2K records spelled Daru3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, United States, Ethiopia

  Also written Da-Ru, Darú

• English given name1.7K records spelled Daru4 spellings in the group

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

  Also written Dar'U, Darú

• French given name1.1K records spelled Daru4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, Italy

  Also written Darù, Darú

• Spanish given name881 records spelled Daru4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Brazil, Peru, United States, India

  Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

  Also written Darú, Darù

• Hungarian given name177 records spelled Daru3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Hungary, Finland, India

  Also written Taru, Darù

32 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●

Daru 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.

• liberal

  as a name·The Penguin book of Hindu names for boys

• In Latvian, first-person singular present indicative of darīt

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

• In Czech, genitive/dative/locative singular of dar

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

• In Serbo-Croatian, dative/locative singular of dar

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

• In Slovak, genitive/dative singular of dar

  as a word·kaikki.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●

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 81 years between 1920–2014. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Pierre Darub. 1767FRFrench writer, academic and statesman (1767-1829)
• Napoléon Darub. 1807FRFrench politician (1807–1890)
• Paul Henri Darub. 1810FRFrench politician and diplomat
• Émile Darub. 1877FRFrench journalist, writer, historian and teacher. (1877–1965)
• Bence Darub. 1994HUassociation football player
• Barnabas H. DaruUSNigerian-American ecologist, biogeographer and academic
• János Daruresearcher

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 · 174 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Daru?

We estimate roughly 98 thousand people bear Daru (counting its spellings and scripts) across 16 countries in our records.

In which country does Daru have the most bearers?

We estimate about 61 thousand people bear Daru in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled dra.

Where is Daru most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Daru is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 654 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.

Is Daru a male or female name?

Daru 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 Daru mean?

Recorded meaning: pine, cedar