Donez

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/dənɛz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Donez is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ukraine than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 999K(measured from records)
  • UAUkraine≈1 in 6.5Kas Донець
  • RURussia≈1 in 29Kas Донец

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 Donez itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Ukraine (inferred from the name graph)

≈6,800 named Донець, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
137 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 39K (inferred from the name graph)

Lesotho, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

ДонецCyrillic(measured from records)
DonetsLatin(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Донец in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, CN China and Донець in UA Ukraine.

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

  • Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)

Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Donez 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.

Where Donez is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
UA Ukraine#535≈6,800 est.≈1 in 6.5K—Донець47
RU Russia—≈4,900 est.≈1 in 29K—Донец137
CN China—≈1,700 est.≈1 in 830K—Донец1
PL Poland—585as Donets1 in 65K314—1
AO Angola—≈460 est.≈1 in 70K—Donez1
US United States—3331 in 999K379Donez83
KZ Kazakhstan—≈330 est.≈1 in 59K170Донец30
LS Lesotho#761≈51 est.≈1 in 39K—Donez1

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; 2021 National Population Census — popular surnames of Russians, by region of residence; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Donez is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Peru, United States, Mexico, El Salvador

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Doñez, Dóñez, Dönez

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, France, Canada

    Also written Doñez, Donéz

  • Swahili surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Also written Doñez

25 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Donez 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 Romanian, first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of dona

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In io, imperative of donar

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Breton, profondeur

    as a wordDeshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)

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)

19201940196019802000Lyudmila Donets, b. 1935Natalia Donets, b. 1957Tetjana Donez, b. 1980Andriy Donets, b. 1981Stanislav Donets, b. 1983

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)

FormalDear Donez,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 5 sources across 1 country.

Official registers attesting Donez
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020379#57,938
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010333#60,505
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000326#58,257
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 1

  • 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 Donez?
A machine transcription gives /dənɛz/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Donez have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 6.8 thousand people named Донець in Ukraine, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Donez?
In the United States, the national register counted 333 people named Donez in 2010, about 1 in 999 thousand residents.
How common is Donez compared with other names?
In Ukraine, Donez is the 535th most common surname of 1,177,784 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Donez” — the 535th most common surname in Ukraine. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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