Dra

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled 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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name 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◐

Dra is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Indonesian given name15K records spelled Dra6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Indonesia, India, United States, Morocco

  Languages: Indonesian, Malay

  Also written Drâ, Ďřā, Drä, Ďřą

• Spanish given name6.8K records spelled Dra15 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Mexico, Spain, Brazil, United States

  Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

  Also written Drå, Drà, Ďřä, Dŕä, Drã

• a separate given name1.4K records spelled Dra3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, United States, Spain, Puerto Rico

  Also written Drä, Dră

• French given name965 records spelled Dra8 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, Spain, India, United States

  Also written Drã, Drà, Drā, Drâ, Ďřă

• Arabic given name425 records spelled Dra6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Egypt, Morocco, Spain, Syria

  Also written Drä, Dr-A, Drà, Drâ, Drã

• Hungarian given name109 records spelled Dra3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, Hungary, United States

  Also written Drä, Drâ

• Turkish given name101 records spelled Dra5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India

  Also written Ďra, Drã

41 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●

Dra is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-5 language code for Dravidian languages.

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

• In Swedish, to pull (on something, possibly causing it to move)

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

• In Czech, masculine singular present transgressive of dřít

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

• In pyu, construction marker for common nouns, oblique

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

• In Polish, genitive/accusative singular of dr

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

• In Norwegian Bokmål, to draw; pull; drag

  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.

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 11 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Dra?

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

In which country does Dra have the most bearers?

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

Where is Dra most common?

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

Is Dra a male or female name?

Dra 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.