Doua
UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Doua has been given to 67 babies in the U.S. since 1980. 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 1994, with 7 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 58% boys, 42% girls all-time.
Babies named Doua, 1994
1 in 531,000
Doua over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Doua over time
In 2000, Doua went to 100% girls and 0% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Doua?
Doua had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1994, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1994
- 1 in 531,000
- 7 of 3,715,972 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 276,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1994
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 367,961 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Doua sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1994 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 367,961 children born in 1994 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Doua. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Douas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Doua was born before 1989 — so the typical Doua is around 36 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 56.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 39
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 56.4% of all recorded uses (22).
Is Doua 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 1994 (7)
- Years since peak
- 31
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 28.3% average annual change
Spellings of Doua
Doua is not the most common spelling — Don is, with 51.2% against Doua'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.
Where Doua is used — boys
Across 1910–2025, Doua was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,875,823 across all states with data. It was least common in Minnesota (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2Minnesota1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Doua has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Where Doua is used — girls
Across 1910–2025, Doua was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 3,202,555 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Doua has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Doua around the world
Where Doua 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.
- France1994–2010#4,448in 2010
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
Doua by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Doua
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Doua
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.