This is a list of submitted names in which the usage is Popular Culture; and the first letter is D.
Submitted names are contributed by users of this website. The accuracy of these name definitions cannot be guaranteed.
Daario m Literature, Popular CultureDaario Naharis is the name of a sellsword character from the Song of Ice and Fire books by GRR Martin and the TV show Game of Thrones based upon the former. ... [
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Daizan m & f Japanese, Popular Culture, LiteratureFrom Japanese 大 (dai) meaning "big, strong, great" and 斬 (zan) meaning "slash, kill". It can also be composed of different kanji that have the same pronunciations.
Daken m Popular CultureIn the Marvel comics universe, Daken is the son of
Wolverine and his wife Itsu. Logan thought he died in womb when Itsu was attacked one night while he was away, but he is removed and secretly left in the care of a local Japanese couple... [
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Dardanella f English (Rare), Popular CultureFrom the name of the Dardanelles, one of the straits that separate European Turkey from Asian Turkey. The place name apparently derives from the name of
Dardanos, son of Zeus and Electra in Greek myth.... [
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Darkseid m Popular CultureDarkseid (pronounced "Darkside'') is a fictional supervillain appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics.
Darna f Filipino, Popular CultureDarna is a fictional character and superheroine created by Filipinokomiks (Philippine colloquial term for comics) legend Mars Ravelo. In her more popular incarnations, she is a warrior from outer space manifesting herself through a girl from Earth, named
Narda.... [
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Daroach m Popular CultureFrom Kirby, an action-platformer video game series developed by HAL Laboratory and published by Nintendo.
Darylann f Popular CultureA compound of the names
Daryl and
Ann borne by a recurring character in 'Hill Street Blues' played by the actress Deborah Richter.
Daryun m Popular CultureDaryun is a main character from "The Heroic Legend of Arslan", which is a novel series and anime show.
Decapre f Popular CultureUsed on a video game character from the Street Fighter series. It is likely derived from дека́брь
(dekábrʹ), the Russian word for
December.
Dedede m Popular CultureKing Dedede is a fictional character and the primary antagonist in Nintendo's Kirby video game series.
Dejah f Literature, Popular Culture, AmericanDejah Thoris is the name of a fictional character and princess of the Martian city-state/empire of Helium on the planet Barsoom (Mars) in American author Edgar Rice Burroughs's series of Martian novels (the first of which was published in 1912)... [
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Deku m Popular CultureFrom Japanese 木偶
(deku) meaning "useless person". This is the nickname of Izuku Midoriya, the main protagonist of the manga series
My Hero Academia (first released in 2014).
Demora f Popular CultureThis is the name of Hikaru Sulu's daughter, Helmsman of the USS Enterprise-B in the 1994 film 'Star Trek: Generations'. Perhaps by coincidence, the word
demora means "delay" in both Spanish and Portuguese.
Desamparada f Popular CultureMeans "forsaken, helpless" in Spanish, in effect an altered form of
Desamparados. The compound name María Desamparada was used for a character on the Mexican telenovela
Triunfo del amor (2010-2011).
Destry m Popular Culture, English (American, Rare)Transferred use of the surname
Destry, ultimately from the Anglo-Norman word
destrer meaning "warhorse". This name was popularized by the western novel 'Destry Rides Again' (1930, by Max Brand) and specially by the 1964 TV series 'Destry' based on the novel.
Dhalsim m Popular CultureThe name of a character from the
Street Fighter series of video games. According to
Street Fighter II game director Akira Nishitani in a 1991 interview, it is derived from
Dhalisma, the name of a martial artist from the 'India-Pakistan area'.
Diablo m Obscure, Popular CultureMeans "devil" in Spanish. Diablo Cody is the pen name of American writer Brook Busey (1978-). There is also a Marvel supervillain named Diablo.
Din f Popular CultureName of the Goddess of Power, Fire and Earth in Zelda. Accociated with the colour Red.
Dodger m English (Rare), Literature, Popular CultureFrom the English word
dodger meaning "one who dodges; one who avoids, evades, or sidesteps". Traditionally a nickname, it is occasionally used as a given name. Fictional bearers include Jack Dawkins, better known as the Artful Dodger, a character from Charles Dickens' novel
Oliver Twist (1838) who befriends Oliver and entreats him to join Fagin's team of young pickpockets, as well as the title character in Terry Pratchett's 2012 novel
Dodger (loosely based on Dickens' Dodger) and Mark 'Dodger' Savage, a character from the British soap opera
Hollyoaks (introduced 2011)... [
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Dolfje m Dutch, Literature, Popular CultureDutch diminutive of
Dolf, as it contains the Dutch diminutive suffix
-je. This name is extremely rare as an official name on birth certificates: it is predominantly used informally, most often on young children.... [
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Domino f Popular Culture, English (Rare)Short form of
Dominique. It was used by author Ian Fleming in his James Bond novel 'Thunderball' (1961), where the nickname belongs to Bond's Italian love interest
Dominetta "Domino" Vitali (renamed Dominique "Domino" and simply Domino in the 1965 and 1983 film adaptations, respectively)... [
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Donder m Literature, Popular CultureDerived from the Dutch word
donder meaning "thunder". Popularized by the reindeer in the story
'Twas the Night Before Christmas and the song
Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer, even though the reindeer was originally named Dunder.
Dondi m & f Popular Culture, EnglishFrom a comic strip first published in 1955. In this comicstrip, Dondi was an Italian orphan asking for his parents saying "dondi" all the time. In the comic strip this comes from people calling him
dandy boy.
Doraemon m Popular CultureFrom Japanese どら猫 (
dora neko) meaning "stray cat" and 衛門 (
emon), an old-fashioned suffix for male names. In the homonymous manga and anime, Doraemon is an earless robotic cat who travels back in time from the 22nd century to aid a boy named
Nobita Nobi.
Dovahkiin m Popular CultureMeans "dragonborn" in the fiction ancient Dragon Language of the dragons in Bethesda's The Elder Scrolls game series. The player-created protagonist of the fifth game in the series, The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim, goes by the epithet Dovahkiin... [
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Dovima f Popular Culture (Rare)Nom de plume adopted by American supermodel Dorothy Virginia Margaret Juba. The name is a portmanteau of the first two letters of Juba's three given first names, and was the first single name ever used by a model.
Drakul m Popular Culture (Modern)Variant of
Dracula. From the epithet of Vlad II Dracul, father of Vlad the Impaler, which meant either "dragon" (alluding to his membership in the noble Order of the Dragon) or "the devil" from Romanian
drac "devil".
Drella m & f Popular CultureA nickname for Andy Warhol used by his friends, a combination of Dracula and Cinderella.
Dresden f & m English, Popular CultureFrom the name of the city in Germany, which is derived from Old Sorbian
Drežďany, meaning "people of the riverside forest".
Drossel m Popular CultureGerman for "thrush" as in the bird. The name of a character in the anime adaption of Black Butler, Drossel Keinz.
Druantia f Popular Culture, Celtic MythologyHypothetic old Celtic form of the name of a river in the south of France commonly known as the Durance, which is of unknown meaning. An Indo-European root meaning "to flow" has been suggested. According to Robert Graves in 'The White Goddess' (1948), it is derived from the Indo-European root
*deru meaning "oak" (as are the words
druid and
dryad) and probably also belonged to a Gallic tree goddess, which he identifies as "Queen of the Druids" and "Mother of the Tree Calendar"... [
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