as a First Name
Irish: short form of Mac Dara ‘son of oak’. This name, though still particularly associated with Connemara, is now found throughout Ireland and elsewhere in the English-speaking world. It was formerly often Anglicized as Dudley.
| 1,636th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 14,876
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- New Jersey
- has the most people named Dara per capita
- 1981
- marked the height of its popularity
98%
2%
4%
55+
55+
56%
30-54
30-54
26%
13-29
13-29
14%
0-12
0-12
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