Durriya
given name · Latin script
Meaning: glittering, sparkling, twinkling, brilliant (see surat al-Nur 24:35)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Durriya is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country.
- KWKuwait≈1 in 592K(inferred from the name graph)
- PKPakistan≈1 in 703K
- SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 933K
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 41 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 592K (inferred from the name graph)
≈330 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Kuwait, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
glittering, sparkling, twinkling, brilliant (see surat al-Nur 24:35)
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Durriya 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 703K | listed | Durriya | 9 |
| US United States | ≈57 est. | ≈1 in 5.8M | — | Durriya | 41 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | ≈37 est. | ≈1 in 933K | — | Durriya | 5 |
| CA Canada | ≈15 est. | ≈1 in 2.5M | — | Durriya | 4 |
| EG Egypt | ≈14 est. | ≈1 in 7.6M | — | Durriya | 4 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | — | Durriya | 8 |
| KW Kuwait | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 592K | — | Durriya | 5 |
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: the pk-muslim-names-cc0 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Durriya 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.
In Arabic, glittering, sparkling, twinkling, brilliant
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 3 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | Muslim given names (CC0) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
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
- Is Durriya a male or female name?
- Durriya 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.
- What does the name Durriya mean?
- Recorded meaning: glittering, sparkling, twinkling, brilliant (see surat al-Nur 24:35)
- In which country does Durriya have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 332 people named Durriya in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled durriya.
- How common is the name Durriya?
- Mondonomo estimates about 330 people in Pakistan have Durriya as their first given name, about 1 in 703 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/durriyaThe 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, “Durriya”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.