Duška
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/d̪uʂka/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Duška is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Serbia than in any other country.
- HRCroatia1 in 11K(measured from records)
- BABosnia & Herzegovina≈1 in 11K
- RSSerbia≈1 in 12K
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 Duška 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.
- Serbia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 23 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
≈590 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Bosnia & Herzegovina, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Duska in US United States.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Duška 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RS Serbia | #514 | ≈590 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Duška | 21 |
| HR Croatia | #829 | 388 | 1 in 11K | 388 | Duška | 23 |
| MK North Macedonia | — | 385as Душка | 1 in 5.5K | 385 | — | 2 |
| BA Bosnia & Herzegovina | — | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Duška | 4 |
| US United States | — | 156 | 1 in 2.1M | 172 | Duska | 19 |
| SI Slovenia | #885 | 143 | 1 in 15K | 144 | Duška | 7 |
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: DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); State Statistical Office — living population names; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Duška is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Czech, a diminutive of the female given name Dušana
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Duška Vronskáb. 1885CZCzech vocalist (1885-1939)
- Duška Schmittb. 1903(1903-1950)
- Duška Knežević Hočevarb. 1965SISlovenian anthropologist
- Duška Vučinić-Lučićb. 2000RSSerbian journalist
- Duška MehSIresearcher
- Duška RokavecSIresearcher
- Duška ŽitkoSISlovenian art historian
- Duška MedvedSISlovenian researcher
- Duška ŠpendlSIresearcher
- Duška GodinaSIresearcher
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 10 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 388 | #849 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 346 | — |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2020 | 145 | #532 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 144 | #1,222 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2017 | 144 | #521 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2016 | 144 | #517 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2025 | 143 | #599 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2021 | 143 | #554 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2019 | 143 | #531 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2018 | 143 | #530 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2015 | 142 | #521 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2014 | 142 | #518 |
Reference works 4
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Kotík, Antonín, Naše příjmení (nové vydání, 1897)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Duška?
- A machine transcription gives /d̪uʂka/ (IPA) for Croatian.
- Is Duška a male or female name?
- Duška is a female 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 Duška have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 585 people named Duška in Serbia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled duška.
- How common is the name Duška?
- In Croatia, the national register counted 388 people named Duška in 2021, about 1 in 11 thousand residents.
- How common is Duška compared with other names?
- In Serbia, Duška is the 514th most common given name of 10,960 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Duška?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/du%C5%A1kaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Duška” — the 514th most common given name in Serbia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.