Digna
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: Latin feminine of dignus 'worthy, deserving'; related to decet 'it is fitting'
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/diɣna/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Digna is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ecuador than in any other country. In Honduras it is the 68th most common given name.
- HNHonduras≈1 in 675(inferred from the name graph)
- ECEcuador1 in 1K
- DODominican Republic≈1 in 1.9K
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.
- Ecuador (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 189 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 675 (inferred from the name graph)
16,846 people, 2024
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Honduras, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
Latin feminine of dignus 'worthy, deserving'; related to decet 'it is fitting'.
Sources 1
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
How Digna is read(measured from records)
Digna is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 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.
- Spanish64%
Latin feminine of dignus 'worthy, deserving'; related to decet 'it is fitting'.
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
feminine singular of digno
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English16%
Latin, 'worthy'
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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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Digna 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EC Ecuador | #224 | 16,846 | 1 in 1K | 17K | Digna | 31 |
| HN Honduras | #68 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 675 | — | Digna | 21 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 8.5K | listed | Digna | 43 |
| TZ Tanzania | — | ≈9,300 est. | ≈1 in 6.3K | — | Digna | 8 |
| PE Peru | #714 | ≈7,800 est. | ≈1 in 4.1K | — | Digna | 36 |
| DO Dominican Republic | #102 | ≈5,700 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | — | Digna | 27 |
| PY Paraguay | — | ≈3,300 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | — | Digna | 16 |
| SV El Salvador | #404 | ≈2,900 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | — | Digna | 14 |
16,846 people counted by INEC — civil registry names, 2024. 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: INEC — civil registry names; the ph-gutenberg1905-names register. 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)
Digna 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.
La que tiene dignidad
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Spanish: from the Late Latin name Digna ‘worthy’, which was borne by a martyr beheaded in Spain during the 9th century.
as a word
In io, worthy; meriting, deserving; having merit, worth, virtue
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)
- Digna Cannemanb. 1912NLDutch watercolorist, 1912-2003
- Digna Laclé-Herrerab. 1925NLAruban teacher, writer, poet and politician, 1925-2021
- Digna Palou Cruzb. 1927ESCanarian writer
- Digna Sinkeb. 1949NLFilm director, screenwriter, film producer
- Digna Ochoab. 1964MXMexican lawyer (1964-2001)
- Digna Ketelaarb. 1967NLDutch tennis player
- Digna Calleb. 1976PEPeruvian politician
- Digna Luz Murillob. 1981COColombian sprinter
- Digna Strautmaneb. 1998LVLatvian basketball player (born 1998)
- Digna Bes LagaESSpanish politician
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 50 sources across 30 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | — | 17K | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 17K | #126 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 1985 | 523 | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 1986 | 490 | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 1995 | 442 | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 1987 | 413 | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 1989 | 377 | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 1984 | 363 | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2024 | 7 | — |
| PH Philippines | Philippine given names (Schneider 1905, Project Gutenberg) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name 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 Digna mean, and where does it come from?
- Latin feminine of dignus 'worthy, deserving'; related to decet 'it is fitting'. Recorded by Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios.
- How do you pronounce Digna?
- A machine transcription gives /diɣna/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Digna a male or female name?
- Digna is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Digna have the most bearers?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted about 17 thousand people named Digna, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled digna.
- How common is the name Digna?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted 16,846 people named Digna in 2024, about 1 in 1.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Digna compared with other names?
- In Ecuador, Digna is the 224th most common given name of 27,061 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/dignaThe 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, “Digna” — the 224th most common given name in Ecuador. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.