Given name · Russian
Дарья
“a wise woman”·“from the oak tree”
Дарья (Dárʹja) is a feminine given name. It is used in Russian.
RussianWritten in Cyrillic script. In English: Daria.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Дарья is Darya written in Cyrillic. Darya is a variant of Dara. Interpretations include “a wise woman” and “from the oak tree”. These belong to different or overlapping naming contexts.
Explained through its name family
How it developed
In Russian usage, Дарья is a feminine form of Дарий.
Дарья’s family of names
In English usage, Дарья has a diminutive in Dasha. In Russian usage, Дарья is a feminine form of Дарий. In Russian usage, Дарья has a conventional equivalent in the Polish form Daria.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Дарья has relatives in 8 languages. Lines run from its Ancient Greek roots to each of them.
8 related names in 8 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 3
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 9
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- DariaFrench, English
- Tarjaderivative · Finnish
- Deryaequivalent
- Dariiaequivalent
- Darjaborrowing · izh
- Дар'яequivalent
- Darijaequivalent
- DáriaHungarian
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See also 10
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
- Дарияalso known as · Russian
- Дашаalso known as · Russian
- Дахаalso known as · Russian
- Дашкаalso known as · Russian
- Дашикalso known as · Russian
- Дашуляalso known as · Russian
- Дашуняalso known as · Russian
- Дашечкаalso known as · Russian
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People named Дарья
- Darya DomrachevaBelarusian biathlete and coachborn 1986
- Daria KasatkinaRussian tennis playerborn 1997
- Daria BilodidUkrainian judokaborn 2000
- Darya DuginaRussian journalist and activist1992–2022
- Darya KlishinaRussian long jumperborn 1991
- Daria SavilleRussian-Australian tennis playerborn 1994
- Darya DontsovaRussian writerborn 1952
- Daria DmitrievaRussian female handball playerborn 1995
- Daria ShmelevaRussian cyclistborn 1994
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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