Dounia Surname
Approximately 9,682 people bear this surname
Dounia Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chad | 4,718 | 1:2,881 | 504 |
| Morocco | 3,987 | 1:8,647 | 1,152 |
| Cameroon | 463 | 1:44,858 | 5,898 |
| Algeria | 178 | 1:217,031 | 25,000 |
| Greece | 166 | 1:66,746 | 11,180 |
| Central African Republic | 49 | 1:92,151 | 23 |
| Niger | 23 | 1:834,436 | 19,133 |
| Spain | 15 | 1:3,116,802 | 65,296 |
| France | 15 | 1:4,428,181 | 244,602 |
| Mauritania | 11 | 1:372,260 | 15,230 |
| Saudi Arabia | 9 | 1:3,428,424 | 32,607 |
| Canada | 5 | 1:7,369,118 | 289,406 |
| Venezuela | 4 | 1:7,551,019 | 53,668 |
| Germany | 3 | 1:26,835,153 | 452,368 |
| Australia | 3 | 1:8,998,567 | 200,784 |
| Belgium | 3 | 1:3,832,215 | 117,288 |
| Burkina Faso | 2 | 1:9,176,050 | 23,741 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| United Arab Emirates | 2 | 1:4,581,136 | 93,443 |
| Senegal | 2 | 1:7,289,671 | 8,117 |
| Benin | 2 | 1:5,167,801 | 84,334 |
| Netherlands | 2 | 1:8,443,588 | 136,641 |
| Malaysia | 2 | 1:14,747,112 | 316,340 |
| Ivory Coast | 2 | 1:11,535,616 | 61,806 |
| Denmark | 2 | 1:2,822,358 | 76,882 |
| China | 1 | 1:1,367,321,566 | 51,149 |
| Egypt | 1 | 1:91,935,754 | 132,737 |
| Hungary | 1 | 1:9,816,277 | 73,288 |
| Guinea | 1 | 1:11,833,817 | 3,268 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
| Colombia | 1 | 1:47,774,072 | 44,230 |
| Congo | 1 | 1:4,989,096 | 34,171 |
| Belarus | 1 | 1:9,501,059 | 159,228 |
| Sweden | 1 | 1:9,846,757 | 347,448 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
| Finland | 1 | 1:5,496,702 | 84,025 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
Dounia (73,534) may also be a first name.
Dounia Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Dounia Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Dounia (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺩﻭﻧﻴﺎ) occurs in Chad more than any other country/territory. It can also be found as a variant:. Click here for other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Dounia? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 52,806th most numerous family name at a global level It is held by around 1 in 752,690 people. Dounia is mostly found in Africa, where 98 percent of Dounia live; 54 percent live in West Africa and 52 percent live in Chadic Africa. It is also the 13,316th most widespread forename at a global level, borne by 73,534 people.
This last name is most frequently held in Chad, where it is held by 4,718 people, or 1 in 2,881. Other than Chad this last name exists in 36 countries. It also occurs in Morocco, where 41 percent reside and Cameroon, where 5 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
Dounia Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Dounia in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺩﻭﻧﻴﺎ | dwnya | 40 |
| ﺩﻧﻴﻪ | dnyh | 20 |
| ﺩﻧﻴﺎ | dnya | 20 |
| ﺍﻟﺪﻧﻴﺎ | aldnya | 20 |
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Footnotes
- Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
- Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
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- Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
- Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Dounia
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