Dua
Dua was given to 231 girls in 2025, #1,060 among girls’ names; 1,485 Americans have been recorded with it since 1993 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,480 Americans named Dua and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 5 years old and half are between 2 and 10.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dua by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Dua mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Dua is “a female given name from Albanian.”
Transliteration of Punjabi ਦੂਆ (dūā) for the Indian surname.
/ˈduː.ə/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Dua?
#1,060 among girls’ names, 2025
Dua rose from #4,323 in 2015 to #1,060 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.02 to 0.14 per 1,000.
231 babies in 2025, the peak
Dua peaked in 2025, when 231 girls were given it, #1,060 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 171 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 231 | #1,060 | 0.14 |
| 2024 | 171 | #1,338 | 0.11 |
| 2023 | 163 | #1,381 | 0.10 |
| 2022 | 131 | #1,616 | 0.08 |
| 2021 | 100 | #1,959 | 0.06 |
| 2020 | 93 | #2,009 | 0.06 |
| 2019 | 72 | #2,462 | 0.04 |
| 2018 | 72 | #2,462 | 0.04 |
| 2017 | 40 | #3,794 | 0.02 |
| 2016 | 41 | #3,727 | 0.02 |
Every recorded year (29)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 33 | #4,323 | 0.02 |
| 2014 | 37 | #4,025 | 0.02 |
| 2013 | 36 | #4,093 | 0.02 |
| 2012 | 32 | #4,526 | 0.02 |
| 2011 | 21 | #6,204 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 26 | #5,285 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 23 | #5,946 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 15 | #8,227 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 18 | #7,163 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 17 | #7,240 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 19 | #6,345 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,428 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 22 | #5,469 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 14 | #7,536 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 16 | #6,703 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 9 | #10,121 | under 0.01 |
| 1999 | 6 | #13,142 | under 0.01 |
| 1996 | 9 | #9,012 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 7 | #10,905 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Dua a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Dua has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 29 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Dua: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dua, and how old are they?
1,480 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,485 Americans ever recorded as Dua. The median Dua alive today is 5 years old; half are between 2 and 10.
The 2020 Census counted 863 people named Dua (791 women and girls, 72 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 615 born in the U.S. The Census count is 40% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 16 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 247 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,210 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Dua born?
The states with the most babies named Dua are New York, California and Texas, with 48% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 38 | #453 | 3.7× |
| California | 32 | #893 | 0.5× |
| Texas | 26 | #1,070 | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 19 | #525 | 1.0× |
| Virginia | 16 | #493 | 1.2× |
| New Jersey | 15 | #506 | 1.7× |
| Washington | 11 | #599 | 0.7× |
| Connecticut | 9 | #329 | 1.6× |
| Georgia | 9 | #1,014 | 0.3× |
| Massachusetts | 7 | #700 | 0.4× |
Where Dua is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Dua is most over-represented in New York: since 1993 it was given 3.7 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Dua with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 2,357 babies since 1880, Dua is the most given (63% of them). In 2025 it was given to 231 of their 283 babies (82%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Dua
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Dua and names like it
- Compare Dua and DuaaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sDua peaked in 2025.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dua since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Dua.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Dua alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with DMost given first.