Duhn
surname · Latin script
Meaning: alternative form of dun (“drunk”)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈdn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Duhn is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.1M(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 73K
- GHGhana≈1 in 302K
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 Duhn 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 115 (measured from records)
- 1 in 73K (inferred from the name graph)
304 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Duehn in MY Malaysia.
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)
alternative form of dun (“drunk”)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Duhn 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.
304 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; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
- Johann Hermann von Duhnb. 1772DEGerman politician (1772-1837)
- Carl Alexander von Duhnb. 1815DEGerman judge (1815-1904)
- Friedrich von Duhnb. 1851DEGerman classical archaeologist (1851-1930)
- Marie-Luise Döttb. 1953DEnot in their usual nameGerman politician
- Pernille Hurup DuhnDKresearcher
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 11 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 373 | #58,695 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 340 | #56,246 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 304 | #65,244 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 80 | #6,774 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- 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
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
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 Duhn mean, and where does it come from?
- alternative form of dun (“drunk”) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Duhn?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈdn/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Duhn have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 304 people named Duhn, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled duhn.
- Where is Duhn most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Duhn is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 73 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Duhn?
- In the United States, the national register counted 304 people named Duhn in 2010, about 1 in 1.1 million 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/duhnThe 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, “Duhn”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.