Döner
surname · Latin script
Meaning: third-person singular indicative aorist of dönmek
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/dœneɾ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Döner is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 165K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 168K
- BEBelgium1 in 266K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 33 (measured from records)
- 1 in 165K (inferred from the name graph)
2,018 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Doner in US United States, BE Belgium, NL Netherlands and Doener in CH Switzerland.
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)
third-person singular indicative aorist of dönmek
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Döner 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 | 2,018 | 1 in 165K | 2K | DoNeR | 30 |
| BR Brazil | 301 | 1 in 703K | 301 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 60 | 1 in 638K | 30 | — | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | 50 | 1 in 168K | 50 | Doener | 3 |
| BE Belgium | 44 | 1 in 266K | 44 | DoNeR | 4 |
| NL Netherlands | 37 | 1 in 467K | 37 | DoNeR | 5 |
| HR Croatia | 14 | 1 in 302K | 16 | — | — |
2,018 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling doner. 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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021). 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)
Döner is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, from mhd. doenen 'sing, play'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In German, ellipsis of Döner Kebab (“doner kebab”) (oriental dish including meat roasted on a revolving spit; a common snack in Germany, usually served in a sandwich with salad and sauce)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, Alternative form of doner (“doner kebab”).
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)
- Naz Dönerb. 1995TRTurkish volleyball player (born 1995)
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 9 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 50 | #18,641 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 44 | #28,904 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 37 | #37,036 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 4 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 4 | #220,727 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 3 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3 | #255,895 |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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 Döner mean, and where does it come from?
- third-person singular indicative aorist of dönmek Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Döner?
- A machine transcription gives /dœneɾ/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- In which country does Döner have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.0 thousand people named Döner, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled DoNeR.
- Where is Döner most common?
- Döner is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 165 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Döner?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,018 people named Döner in 2010, about 1 in 165 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/d%C3%B6nerThe 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, “Döner”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.