Dounia
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/duɲa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Dounia is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Morocco than in any other country.
- MAMorocco≈1 in 1.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- FRFrance≈1 in 7.5K
- BEBelgium≈1 in 9.5K
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.
- Morocco (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 257 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈25,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Morocco, 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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Dounia 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MA Morocco | #630 | ≈25,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | listed | Dounia | 64 |
| DZ Algeria | #764 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.3K | listed | Dounia | 25 |
| FR France | #753 | ≈9,000 est. | ≈1 in 7.5K | 9.4K | Dounia | 257 |
| ES Spain | — | 2,050 | 1 in 24K | 2K | Dounia | 37 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 9.5K | 9 | Dounia | 38 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 1,038 | 1 in 17K | 1K | Dounia | 15 |
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: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); the ma-etatcivil-authorized-given-names register; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); the dz-kaggle-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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Dounia Ourissonb. 1910MXJewish writer, Auschwitz prisoner (1910-1991)
- Dounia Charafb. 1960MAFrench novelist
- Dounia Bouzarb. 1964FRFrench anthropologist
- Dounia Sichovb. 1980FRFrench actress and film editor
- Dounia Issab. 1981FRFrench basketball player (born 1981)
- Dounia Akhazrounb. 1986FRFrench association football player
- Dounia Coesensb. 1988FRFrench actress
- Dounia Abdourahimb. 1992FRFrench handball player
- Douniab. 1997USAmerican singer
- Dounia Naâmab. 2003DZbadminton player
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 42 sources across 28 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 9.4K | #728 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 2K | #1,702 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 1.7K | #982 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 1K | #1,270 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 1K | #2,057 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 2004 | 63 | #160 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 1999 | 60 | #178 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 2024 | 9 | #867 |
| MA Morocco | Liste des prénoms d'usage au Maroc — official authorized given-names list | — | — | — |
| DZ Algeria | Algerian names (Kaggle, MIT) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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 Dounia?
- A machine transcription gives /duɲa/ (IPA) for French.
- Is Dounia a male or female name?
- Dounia 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 Dounia have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 25 thousand people named Dounia in Morocco, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dounia.
- How common is the name Dounia?
- In Spain, the national register counted 2,050 people named Dounia, about 1 in 24 thousand residents.
- How common is Dounia compared with other names?
- In Morocco, Dounia is the 630th most common given name of 41,711 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Dounia?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/douniaThe 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, “Dounia” — the 630th most common given name in Morocco. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.