Dūka
surname · Latin script
Meaning: sens ide tautu pūšams mūzikas instruments, ko vēl tagad lieto skotu un Balkānu tautu kara orķestrī, īru zemnieki, bet Latvijā suiti; somu (soma) dūdas
Dūka is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Albania than in any other country.
- ALAlbania≈1 in 840few records(inferred from the name graph)
- HUHungary≈1 in 12Kfew records
- HRCroatia1 in 15K
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 Dūka itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Albania (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 143 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 838 (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,800 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Albania, 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 Duka in PH Philippines, AL Albania, HU Hungary and 2 more and Дука in UA Ukraine, RU Russia.
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)sens ide tautu pūšams mūzikas instruments, ko vēl tagad lieto skotu un Balkānu tautu kara orķestrī, īru zemnieki, bet Latvijā suiti; somu (soma) dūdas
Cited for this meaning 1
- Tēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Dūka is found
(measured from records)Dūka 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AL Albania | #107 | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 838 | — | Duka | 51 |
| BR Brazil | — | 2,395as Duca | 1 in 88K | 2.4K | — | 1 |
| UA Ukraine | — | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Дука | 38 |
| RU Russia | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 87K | register #5,522 | Дука | 121 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 74K | — | Duka | 39 |
| HU Hungary | — | ≈790 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Duka | 43 |
| GR Greece | — | ≈630 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Duka | 20 |
| PL Poland | — | 360 | 1 in 106K | 181 | Duka | 26 |
| HR Croatia | — | 288 | 1 in 15K | 288 | — | 1 |
| MK North Macedonia | — | 126as Дука | 1 in 17K | 126 | — | 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); State Statistical Office — living population names. 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)Dūka 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 Latvian, Caurums, atvere (piemēram, kādā mašīnā, ēkas daļā)
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Raudulīgs cilvēks (parasti bērns)
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, vieta purvā bez stabila pamata
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Muļķīga, nekārtīga sieviete
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Īgņa; miera traucētājs
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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.
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Dūka mean?
- Recorded meaning: sens ide tautu pūšams mūzikas instruments, ko vēl tagad lieto skotu un Balkānu tautu kara orķestrī, īru zemnieki, bet Latvijā suiti; somu (soma) dūdas
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Dūka?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.8 thousand people named Dūka in Albania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled duka. After it come Brazil, Ukraine, Russia and Philippines; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Dūka?
- In Poland, the national register counted 360 people named Dūka in 2026, about 1 in 106 thousand residents.
- How common is Dūka compared with other names?
- In Albania, Dūka is the 107th most common surname of 16,055 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Dūka?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/d%C5%ABkaThe 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, “Dūka” — the 107th most common surname in Albania. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.