Given name & surname
Dar
“resembling a pearl”
Dar is used as a given name and a surname. One Hebrew interpretation is “resembling a pearl.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Hebrew interpretation is “resembling a pearl.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Hebrew.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1971. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Dar through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 28
- 28 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1988
- 8 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2014. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 8 in 1988. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 812 as a first name in 2020; 1,546 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
People named Dar
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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