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Dua

#1,060 in 2025Girls' name

Prayer

Dua has been given to 1,485 babies in the U.S. since 1993. In 2025 it ranked #1,060 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 231 recorded.

Babies named Dua, 2025

1 in 14,400

Dua over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Dua: meaning, origin, and history

Prayer

Albanian

What Dua means

Dua means “prayer”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Transliteration of Punjabi ਦੂਆ (dūā) for the Indian surname.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Dua (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Dua is used in English and Albanian. Its origins include Albanian.

Dua comes through Punjabi ਦੂਆ.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include ਦ.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Dua is pronounced /ˈduː.ə/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,485 girls were recorded with the name Dua between 1993 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 231 in 2025; its best national rank was #1,060 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,009 in 2020 to #1,060 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #4,323 in 2015 to #1,060 in 2025.

How common is Dua?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 14,400
231 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 6,960
0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,060
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
9,949 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Dua 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 2025 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 5003%

Put another way: gather 9,949 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dua. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Duas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Dua was born before 2021 — so the typical Dua is around 4 today.

Median birth year
2021
About 4 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
59.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
97.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,485
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 59.9% of all recorded uses (889).

Is Dua 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
+278
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+949
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+3,263
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
7.00×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (231)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,060
2025

Where Dua is used

Across 2016–2025, Dua was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 3,030 girls, against 1 in 11,590 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in 100,000).

133 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 3,030
  2. 2Connecticut1 in 4,545
  3. 3New Jersey1 in 4,762
  4. 4Virginia1 in 7,692
  5. 5Illinois1 in 9,091
  6. 6Maryland1 in 12,500
  7. 7Washington1 in 12,500
  8. 8Texas1 in 14,286

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.

Dua around the world

Where Dua 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
    1999–2025
    #118
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2010–2025
    #429
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2020–2025
    #483
    in 2025
  • France
    2009–2025
    #1,604
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2003–2024
    #354
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2009–2009
    #818
    in 2009

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Dua by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,060
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 949
Best rank ever
#1,060
2025
Peak year
2025
231 that year
First recorded
1993
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,485
Count in 2025
231

Names similar to Dua

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

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Sibling names for Dua

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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