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 surname Dounia (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺩﻭﻧﻴﺎ) is found most frequently in Chad. It can also be found in the variant forms:. Click here for further possible spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Dounia? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 52,806th most commonly used last name internationally, borne by around 1 in 752,690 people. This last name occurs predominantly 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 numerous first name internationally. It is borne by 73,534 people.
The last name is most commonly used in Chad, where it is borne by 4,718 people, or 1 in 2,881. Besides Chad this surname is found in 36 countries. It is also found in Morocco, where 41 percent live and Cameroon, where 5 percent live.
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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