Donosa
surname · Latin script
Meaning: feminine singular of donoso
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/donosa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Donosa is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Romania than in any other country.
- RORomania≈1 in 49K(inferred from the name graph)
- ARArgentina1 in 842K
- ESSpain1 in 1.7M
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.
- Romania (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 28 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 49K (inferred from the name graph)
≈440 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Romania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)feminine singular of donoso
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world
(measured from records)Donosa 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RO Romania | ≈440 est. | ≈1 in 49K | — | Donosa | 12 |
| AR Argentina | 54 | 1 in 842K | 54 | Donosa | 17 |
| ES Spain | 29 | 1 in 1.7M | 29 | Donosa | 16 |
| US United States | ≈20 est. | ≈1 in 16M | — | Donosa | 28 |
| CH Switzerland | 4 | 1 in 2.1M | 4 | — | — |
| CL Chile | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 7M | — | Donosa | 6 |
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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Donosa 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.
Que tiene gracia y encanto
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
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.
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)6 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 54 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 29 | #65,702 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 29 | #64,358 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 4 | #118,617 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Donosa mean, and where does it come from?
- feminine singular of donoso Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Donosa?
- A machine transcription gives /donosa/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Donosa have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 435 people named Donosa in Romania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled donosa.
- How common is the name Donosa?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 54 people named Donosa, about 1 in 842 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/donosaThe 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, “Donosa”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.