Given name & surname
Dounia
“the world”
Dounia is a feminine given name from Arabic. It is used in French.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Dounia goes back to Arabic دُنْيَا, meaning “the world.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1997. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Dounia through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 43
- 0 boys · 43 girls
- Most popular year
- 2000
- 10 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 2005. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 10 in 2000. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 277 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Dounia’s family of names
In Greek usage, Dounia as a surname is a transliteration of Δούνια.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 5
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Dounia
- Dounia CoesensFrench actressborn 1988
- Dounia BouzarFrench anthropologistborn 1964
- Dounia IssaFrench basketball player (born 1981)
- DouniaAmerican singerborn 1997
- Dounia AbdourahimFrench handball playerborn 1992
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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