Dubina
surname · Latin script
Meaning: "club"
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/dubinə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Dubina is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- UAUkraine≈1 in 4.4Kas Дубина(inferred from the name graph)
- RURussia≈1 in 25Kas Дубина
- MDMoldova≈1 in 33K
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 Dubina 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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 125 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 33K (inferred from the name graph)
≈12,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Moldova, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Дубина in UA Ukraine, RU Russia, BY Belarus and 2 more and Dubyna in US United States.
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)
"club."
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Dubina 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 112K | — | Дубина | 2 |
| UA Ukraine | #290 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.4K | — | Дубина | 45 |
| RU Russia | — | ≈5,600 est. | ≈1 in 25K | — | Дубина | 125 |
| BY Belarus | #452 | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 5.6K | — | Дубина | 20 |
| TW Taiwan | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Дубина | 1 |
| US United States | — | 255 | 1 in 1.3M | 291 | Dubyna | 46 |
| MD Moldova | — | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 33K | — | Dubina | 4 |
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. 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)
Dubina is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In izh, club (heavy stick)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Serbo-Croatian, depth
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, apdzīvota vieta (skrajciems) Rēzeknes novada Feimaņu pagastā
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Dubinka, ezers Kaplavas pagastā
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Dubiņs, ezers Kombuļu pagastā
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
- Peter Dubinab. 1940CZGerman writer (1940-1990)
- Joel Fredrick Dubinab. 1947USUnited States federal judge
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 23 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 291 | #72,089 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 255 | #75,564 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 229 | #77,742 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Dubina mean, and where does it come from?
- "club." Recorded by A Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996).
- How do you pronounce Dubina?
- A machine transcription gives /dubinə/ (IPA) for Ukrainian.
- In which country does Dubina have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 12 thousand people named Dubina in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled дубина.
- How common is the name Dubina?
- In the United States, the national register counted 255 people named Dubina in 2010, about 1 in 1.3 million residents.
- How common is Dubina compared with other names?
- In Ukraine, Dubina is the 290th most common surname of 1,177,784 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Dubina?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/dubinaThe 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, “Dubina” — the 290th most common surname in Ukraine. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.