Is Dara a male or female name?
Dara is used as both a female and male name. In counted records, it is associated with female usage in United States at 94% and male usage in Ireland at 83%. Country context changes the answer.
Result without a country hint
This is the response used when the request does not supply a country. It is a fallback, not a claim that every country has the same distribution.
- Association
- female
- Probability
- 74%
- Sample size
- 21,724
- Confidence
- high
Dara by country
Only sources that publish observation counts appear in this table. The probability is the dominant-gender share within that country source; sample sizes from different countries cover different years and should not be treated as population rankings.
| Country | Association | Probability | Sample | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States US | female | 94% | 14,288 | ssa |
| Ireland IE | male | 83% | 3,562 | cso |
| England and Wales GB | male | 75% | 1,900 | ons |
| Spain ES | female | 100% | 868 | ine |
| Canada CA | female | 76% | 471 | statcan |
| France FR | male | 60% | 340 | insee |
| Switzerland CH | female | 67% | 212 | bfs |
| Austria AT | female | 74% | 42 | statat |
| Poland PL | female | 80% | 41 | pesel |
Attested in 42 countries and territories
Presence means the name appears in a source for that country. Sources without counts cannot support a popularity share.
AE · AF · AT · AU · BA · BE · BH · BY · CA · CH · DZ · EG · ER · ES · FR · GB · IE · IN · IQ · IR · JO · KM · KW · LB · LK · LY · MA · MD · MR · OM · PL · QA · RS · RU · SA · SD · SE · SO · SY · TN · US · YE
Dara over time
In the United States, 100% of the babies named Dara in the 1940s were girls, against 83.1% in the 2020s.
| Decade of birth | United States: girls | Babies |
|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 100% | 212 |
| 1950s | 99% | 977 |
| 1960s | 99% | 1,859 |
| 1970s | 99% | 2,680 |
| 1980s | 94% | 3,089 |
| 1990s | 90% | 1,997 |
| 2000s | 91% | 1,190 |
| 2010s | 91% | 1,125 |
| 2020s | 83% | 958 |
Births per decade from the US Social Security Administration (1880–2024) and INSEE (France, 1900–2025); decades with fewer than 100 babies are left out. See boys' names that became girls' names and French names that changed sex.
Look up Dara with a country
Send a reliable two-letter country code when you have one. Preserve probability, sample size, confidence and source with the category.
curl "https://namegender.com/api/v1/gender?name=Dara&country=US" \
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Method and limits
Counted rows come from national registration sources that publish male and female totals. The attested-country list also includes sources that confirm presence but do not publish a sample size. Those two evidence types are kept separate.
Name data describes a population-level association. It does not identify an individual person's gender. Preserve unknown and low-confidence results, and do not use name inference for employment, medical, financial, insurance, legal or eligibility decisions.
Data version: 2026.10. Read the benchmark methodology and database provenance before applying a threshold.
Questions about Dara
Is Dara a male or female name?
Dara is used as both a female and male name. In counted records, it is associated with female usage in United States at 94% and male usage in Ireland at 83%. Country context changes the answer.
Why can the result for Dara change by country?
A name can have different observed distributions in different populations. A country hint narrows the evidence used by the API instead of treating one global result as universal.
Does the name Dara identify a person's gender?
No. This page describes statistical associations in name records. It cannot identify an individual person and should not be used for consequential decisions.