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Doaa

Girls' name

Alternate transcription of Dua

Doaa has been given to 105 babies in the U.S. since 1999. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2005, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Doaa, 2020

1 in 477,000

Doaa over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Doaa: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Dua

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Doaa means

Doaa is a alternate transcription of Dua.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Doaa is used in Arabic.

Another recorded pronunciation is /du.ˈʕaːʔ/ for Doaa.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Doaa → Dua. The family’s meaning is “prayer”, recorded in the naming reference for Dua.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Dua.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 105 girls were recorded with the name Doaa between 1999 and 2020. Its highest annual count was 10 in 2005; its best national rank was #10,343 in 2005.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Doaa?

Doaa had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2020, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2020
1 in 477,000
7 of 3,342,313 births
Among girls only
1 in 231,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2020
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
330,960 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Doaa sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2020 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 330,960 children born in 2020 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Doaa. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Doaas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Doaa was born before 2008 — so the typical Doaa is around 17 today.

Median birth year
2008
About 17 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
55.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
105
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 55.2% of all recorded uses (58).

Is Doaa rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
—
Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2005 (10)
Years since peak
20
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#10,343
2005

Spellings of Doaa

Doaa is not the most common spelling — Donna is, with 25.7% against Doaa's <0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Doaa around the world

Where Doaa ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2004–2021
    #5,581
    in 2021
  • France
    1997–2024
    #3,225
    in 2024
  • Canada
    2007–2021
    #3,354
    in 2021

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Doaa by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#10,343
2005
Peak year
2005
10 that year
First recorded
1999
Last recorded
2020
All-time count
105
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Doaa

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Doaa

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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