Duni
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Duni is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: small.
- USUnited States1 in 1.6Kas Dana(measured from records)
- NGNigeria≈1 in 553K
- CZCzechia1 in 105as Dana
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 Duni 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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 97 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 553K (inferred from the name graph)
210,579 named Dana, 2020
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Nigeria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Dan in US United States, NG Nigeria.
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)
small
Sources 1
- Whats in a name = Unaitwaje a Swahili book of names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Duni 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 210,579as Dana | 1 in 1.6K | 172K | Dan | 97 |
| CZ Czechia | 101,562as Dana | 1 in 105 | 102K | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 22,427as Dan | 1 in 455 | 22K | — | 4 |
| BR Brazil | 13,911as Dina | 1 in 15K | 17K | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 6,189as Dan | 1 in 948 | 6.2K | — | — |
| MD Moldova | 5,730as Dan | 1 in 587 | 5.7K | — | 1 |
| LV Latvia | 2,425as Dana | 1 in 776 | 2.4K | — | 4 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈390 est. | ≈1 in 553K | — | Dan | 9 |
210,579 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020, counting the spelling dana. 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; MVČR — living population register 2017; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); e-services.md — living population register; PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup). 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)
Duni is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Serbo-Croatian, second-person singular imperative of dunuti
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swahili, inferior, mediocre, worthless
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In gmw-pro, sound, noise
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In dag, knee (sometimes one hears ‘dim’.)
as a wordDagbani Dictionary CD
In dag, to pass water, to urinate
as a wordDagbani Dictionary CD
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)
- Duni ChandraINIndian linguist, scholar of the Punjabi language
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 17 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 68 | #11,092 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 18 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- What does the name Duni mean, and where does it come from?
- small Recorded by Whats in a name = Unaitwaje a Swahili book of names.
- Is Duni a male or female name?
- Duni is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Duni have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 211 thousand people named Dana, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Duni?
- In the United States, the national register counted 210,579 people named Dana in 2020, about 1 in 1.6 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Duni?
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/duniThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Duni”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.