Duša
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Croatian: soul
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/dǔːʃa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Duša is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- SISlovenia1 in 18K(measured from records)
- LVLatvia≈1 in 132K
- CZCzechia1 in 191K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 10 (measured from records)
- 1 in 18K (inferred from the name graph)
170 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Slovenia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Dusa 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(measured from records)
soul
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
How Duša is read(measured from records)
Duša is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Croatian46%
soul
as a wordrecorded as Serbo-Croatiankaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Slovak18%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Duša in Slovak.
- Czech16%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Duša in Czech.
- Latvian8.8%
shower
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
ierīce, no kuras plūst sašķīstošos pilienos izkliedētas ūdens strūklas; no šādas ierīces plūstošas ūdens strūklas
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Krūtis
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
- Slovenian6.1%
soul (the spirit or essence of a person that is believed to live on after the person’s death)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Duša 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.
170 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 2020; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); MVČR — living population register 2017; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Ferdiš Dušab. 1888CZCzech graphic and painter (1888-1958)
- Zdravko Dušab. 1950SISlovenian journalist
- Irena DušaSISlovenian translator
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 11 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 115 | #3,906 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 56 | #26,709 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 15 | — |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 13 | #28,581 |
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
- What does the name Duša mean, and where does it come from?
- soul Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Duša?
- A machine transcription gives /dǔːʃa/ (IPA) for Croatian.
- In which country does Duša have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 170 people named Duša, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dusa.
- Where is Duša most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Duša is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 18 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Duša?
- In the United States, the national register counted 170 people named Duša in 2010, about 1 in 2.0 million residents.
What do you want to know about Duša?
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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%A1aThe 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, “Duša”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.