Dug-A

surname · Latin script

Dug-A is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • PHPhilippines≈1 in 793K(inferred from the name graph)
  • USUnited States1 in 1.5M
  • SISlovenia1 in 55K

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.

United States (measured from records)

223 people, 2010

Record sources
120 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 55K (inferred from the name graph)

Slovenia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Duga in PH Philippines, 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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Dug-A 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 Dug-A is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States2231 in 1.5M229Duga120
PH Philippines≈140 est.≈1 in 793K—Duga26
BR Brazil401 in 5.3M40——
SI Slovenia381 in 55K38——
CZ Czechia291 in 369K30——
HR Croatia291 in 146K29——
CH Switzerland111 in 764K11—2

223 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); MVČR — living population register 2017; KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); 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 names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

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

  • Spanish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, Argentina, United States, Brazil

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Duga

  • Indonesian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, India

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Duga

  • Swahili surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, United States, Kenya, Tanzania

    Also written Duga

4 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.

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Dug-A under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Dug-A have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 223 people named Dug-A, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled duga.
Where is Dug-A most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Dug-A is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 55 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Dug-A?
In the United States, the national register counted 223 people named Dug-A in 2010, about 1 in 1.5 million residents.

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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, “Dug-A”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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