Dòñ

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Dòñ is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Inherited from Late Latin dom (“a courtesy title for monks and abbots”), from domnus (“master, sir”), from Classical Latin dominus, from domus (“a house”), from Proto-Indo-European *dṓm (“a house”), f.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 3K(measured from records)
  • ILIsrael≈1 in 53Kas דון
  • GYGuyana1 in 6.4K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Dòñ itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

109,818 people, 2020

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
73 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 3.0K (inferred from the name graph)

United States

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

DòñLatin(measured from records)
דוןHebrew(measured from records)

3 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Don in US United States and דון in IL Israel.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Derivation of Dòñ: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Dòñ
  1. Late Latindom“a courtesy title for monks and abbots”(measured from records)
  2. Late Latin rootdomnus“master“master, sir”(measured from records)
  3. Classical Latindominus(measured from records)
  4. Classical Latin rootdomus“a house”(measured from records)
  5. Proto-Indo-European*dṓm“a house”(measured from records)

Inherited from Late Latin dom (“a courtesy title for monks and abbots”), from domnus (“master, sir”), from Classical Latin dominus, from domus (“a house”), from Proto-Indo-European *dṓm (“a house”), from root Proto-Indo-European *dem- (“to build”).

Sources 9

  • 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
  • A concise dictionary of first names
  • DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Wiktionary

Attested across 29 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Dòñ counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Dòñ is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States109,8181 in 3K109KDon73
BR Brazil1,272as Duane1 in 166K1.3K—3
SE Sweden5291 in 19K529——
NL Netherlands182as Duane1 in 95K1.1K—3
IL Israel≈160 est.≈1 in 53K323דון23
GY Guyana1171 in 6.4K117——
FI Finland861 in 65K294—1

109,818 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Dòñ under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Dòñ mean, and where does it come from?
Inherited from Late Latin dom (“a courtesy title for monks and abbots”), from domnus (“master, sir”), from Classical Latin dominus, from domus (“a house”), from Proto-Indo-European *dṓm (“a house”), f… Recorded by 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado and A concise dictionary of first names and 7 other sources.
Is Dòñ a male or female name?
Dòñ is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Dòñ have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 110 thousand people named Dòñ, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled don.
Where is Dòñ most common?
Dòñ is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 3.0 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Dòñ?
In the United States, the national register counted 109,818 people named Dòñ in 2020, about 1 in 3.0 thousand residents.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Dòñ”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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