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Dunya

#3,924 in 2025Girls' name

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Dunya has been given to 563 babies in the U.S. since 1984. In 2025 it ranked #3,924 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 37 recorded.

Babies named Dunya, 2025

1 in 89,600

Dunya over time, 1880–2025

Girls
01020304018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Dunya: meaning, origin, and history

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Russian

What Dunya means

Dunya has more than one naming route in the cited origin entries: distinct naming traditions.

The naming story behind Dunya

A separate documented entry treats Dunya as a diminutive of Avdotya. That is a personal-name relationship, which differs from translating the letters of the modern spelling into one universal English word. The linked origin entry identifies the context of this relationship.

One of the source’s documented entries for Dunya records a meaning of world, earth.

Origin, language, and formation

Dunya is used in English. Its origins include Russian.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 563 girls were recorded with the name Dunya between 1984 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 37 in 2024; its best national rank was #3,924 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #5,706 in 2020 to #3,924 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #7,063 in 2015 to #3,924 in 2025.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Dunya?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 89,600
37 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 43,400
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#3,924
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
62,106 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Dunya 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 62,106 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dunya. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Dunyas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Dunya was born before 2014 — so the typical Dunya is around 11 today.

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
32.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
84.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
563
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Choose a decade

2020s — 32.3% of all recorded uses (182).

Is Dunya 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
+62
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,782
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+3,139
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.18×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2024 (37)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,924
2025

Spellings of Dunya

Dunya is not the most common spelling — Donna is, with 50.3% against Dunya's 0.03%.

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 Dunya is used

Across 1910–2025, Dunya was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 336,607 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2Texas1 in —
  3. 3Virginia1 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. Dunya has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Dunya around the world

Where Dunya 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
    2000–2025
    #1,110
    in 2025
  • France
    1999–2025
    #3,337
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2009–2024
    #1,469
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1981–1991
    #669
    in 1991

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

Dunya by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#3,924
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,782
Best rank ever
#3,924
2025
Peak year
2024
37 that year
First recorded
1984
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
563
Count in 2025
37

Names similar to Dunya

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

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Sibling names for Dunya

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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