Donica
given name · Latin script
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 11 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ˈdɑnɪkə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Donica is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Polish Donica.
- USUnited States1 in 405K(measured from records)
- GYGuyana1 in 63K
- GTGuatemala≈1 in 181K
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.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 191 (measured from records)
- 1 in 63K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,100 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Borrowed from Polish Donica.
Cited for this meaning 2
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Donica 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 211K | — | Donica | 1 |
| US United States | 822 | 1 in 405K | 808 | Donica | 191 |
| PH Philippines | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 487K | — | Donica | 16 |
| CA Canada | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 317K | — | Donica | 24 |
| GT Guatemala | ≈95 est. | ≈1 in 181K | — | Donica | 5 |
| AT Austria | ≈30 est. | ≈1 in 296K | — | Donica | 3 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈14 est. | ≈1 in 201K | — | Donica | 4 |
| GY Guyana | 12 | 1 in 63K | 12 | Donica | 2 |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)Donica is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Polish, flowerpot, plant pot, vase
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)- Helena DonicaPLresearcher ORCID ID = 0000-0003-0677-7825
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)19 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 576 | #36,630 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 571 | #38,691 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 524 | #44,220 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Donica mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Polish Donica. Recorded by Wiktionary and Nordic Names.
- How do you pronounce Donica?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈdɑnɪkə/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Donica a male or female name?
- Donica is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- In which country does Donica have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.1 thousand people named Donica in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled donica.
- Where is Donica most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Donica is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 63 thousand people — even though Pakistan holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Donica?
- In the United States, the national register counted 822 people named Donica in 2020, about 1 in 405 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/donicaThe 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, “Donica”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.