Duva
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈduvə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Duva is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- ARArgentina1 in 143K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 388K
- BMBermuda≈1 in 22K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 183 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 22K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,500 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Bermuda, 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 D'Uva in AR Argentina, UY Uruguay.
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.
Sources 1
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Duva 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 54K | — | Duva | 8 |
| US United States | — | 857 | 1 in 388K | 858 | Duva | 183 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 180K | listed | Duva | 10 |
| AR Argentina | — | 317 | 1 in 143K | 317 | D'Uva | 35 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 343K | — | Duva | 21 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 55 | 1 in 62K | 55 | D'Uva | 5 |
| JM Jamaica | — | ≈27 est. | ≈1 in 106K | — | Duva | 1 |
| BM Bermuda | #250 | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Duva | 1 |
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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
Duva 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 fj, two plants: (1) Couthovia corynocarpa, Loganiaceae, and (2) a plant used for poisoning fish, Derris trifoliate, Leguminoseae; to poison fish
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In fj, a branch that is used to smack small children
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Serbo-Croatian, third-person singular present of duvati
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Zulu, to become stale
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In gmq-osw, dove, pigeon
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)
- Dan Duvab. 1951USAmerican boxer (1951-1996)
- Kathy Duvab. 1953USAmerican boxing promoter
- Dino Duvab. 1958USAmerican boxing promoter
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 20 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 858 | #26,694 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 857 | #27,974 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 825 | #30,341 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 224 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 55 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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
- How do you pronounce Duva?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈduvə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Duva have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.5 thousand people named Duva in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled duva.
- How common is the name Duva?
- In the United States, the national register counted 857 people named Duva in 2010, about 1 in 388 thousand residents.
- How common is Duva compared with other names?
- In Bermuda, Duva is the 250th most common surname of 6,699 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Duva?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/duvaThe 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, “Duva” — the 250th most common surname in Bermuda. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.