Danuta
given name · Polish · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Danuta is a given name, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country, where it is the 38th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Polish and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Danuta har föreslagits vara en polsk bildning till Bogdana (’Guds gåva’).
- PLPoland1 in 134◐
- CZCzechia1 in 12K
- UAUkraine1 in 36K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈293K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 205 ●
- 1 in 134 ◐
across 13 countries
recorded for this name
54K records
Official registry-verified
Poland
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Данута in UA Ukraine, RU Russia, BY Belarus and 4 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
Danuta har föreslagits vara en polsk bildning till Bogdana (’Guds gåva’). Namnet kan också ha baltiskt ursprung, möjligen sammanhörande med Danejko, som antas vara bildat till ryskans Daniil (utvecklat ur → Daniel).
Sources 1
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | #38 | 286,032△ | 22K rec. | 1 in 134 | 286K | Danuta | 143 |
| UA Ukraine | #464 | 8,766 | 8.7K rec. | — | — | Данута | 25 |
| RU Russia | — | 4,405 | 1.2K rec. | — | listed | Данута | 98 |
| US United States | — | 3,958 | 17K rec. | 1 in 84K | 4K | Danuta | 205 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 1,820 | 1.4K rec. | — | listed | Danuta | 71 |
| SE Sweden | — | 1,013△ | 187 rec. | 1 in 10K | 1K | Danuta | 21 |
| CZ Czechia | #522 | 914△ | 60 rec. | 1 in 12K | 914 | Danuta | 28 |
| BY Belarus | #205 | 789 | 126 rec. | — | — | Данута | 15 |
| IT Italy | — | 687 | 738 rec. | — | listed | Danuta | 27 |
| CA Canada | — | 451 | 405 rec. | — | — | Danuta | 59 |
| BR Brazil | — | 324△ | 5 rec. | 1 in 653K | 409 | — | 1 |
| LV Latvia | — | 270△ | 9 rec. | 1 in 7K | 270 | Danuta | 5 |
Roughly 286K people in Poland bear this name (about 1 in 134). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Polish1.4M96%
- English21K1%
- German7.5K1%
- Portuguese4.9K1%
- Czech4.7K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Polish | 1,444,440 | 96% |
| English | 21,172 | 1% |
| German | 7,513 | 1% |
| Portuguese | 4,880 | 1% |
| Czech | 4,665 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Danuta is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Polish: of uncertain origin, apparently a derivative of DANA . It is also possible that Danuta may derive from Latin Don ta , feminine of Don tus (see DONATO ).
as a word
In Latvian, Sievietes vārds
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1950 | 9 |
| 1951 | 6 |
| 1953 | 5 |
| 1954 | 10 |
| 1955 | 12 |
| 1956 | 10 |
| 1957 | 6 |
| 1958 | 8 |
| 1959 | 5 |
| 1960 | 11 |
| 1961 | 7 |
| 1962 | 9 |
| 1963 | 10 |
| 1964 | 9 |
| 1965 | 7 |
| 1966 | 10 |
| 1967 | 4 |
| 1968 | 9 |
| 1969 | 10 |
| 1970 | 7 |
| 1972 | 10 |
| 1974 | 7 |
| 1976 | 4 |
| 1980 | 4 |
| 1982 | 4 |
| 1989 | 4 |
NO SSB — Navn (1880–present) — 26 years between 1950–1989. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Danutė of Lithuaniab. 1358not in their usual nameLithuanian princess, daughter of Kęstutis, Grand Duke of Lithuania, and wife of Janusz I of Warsaw
- Zofia Danuta Szaflarskab. 1915PLPolish actress (1915–2017)
- Danuta Siedzikównab. 1928PLPolish resistance fighter (1928–1946)
- Danuta Hübnerb. 1948PLPolish economist and politician
- Danuta Wałęsab. 1949PLFirst lady of Poland
- Danuta Latob. 1963PLPolish actor, model and musician
- Anna Ankab. 1971SEnot in their usual nameSwedish-American model, actress, and author
- Anna Wendzikowskab. 1981PLnot in their usual namePolish actress
- Danuta Dmowskab. 1982PLPolish fencer
- Danuta Kozákb. 1987HUHungarian kayaker
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 51 sources across 26 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 286K | #20 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 286K | #20 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 4K | #4,627 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 1K | #1,674 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 914 | #510 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 730 | #1,979 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 710 | — |
| CZ Czechia | naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot | — | 457 | #571 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 457 | #558 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 409 | #8,540 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 379 | #17,050 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 324 | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (Tom II: C-D)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 310 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Danuta?
- We estimate roughly 293 thousand people bear Danuta (counting its spellings and scripts) across 13 countries in our records.
- In which country does Danuta have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 286 thousand people bear Danuta in Poland, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled danuta.
- Where is Danuta most common?
- Danuta is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 134 people carrying it.
- How common is Danuta compared with other names?
- In Poland, Danuta is the 38th most common given name of 66,904 given names recorded there.
- Is Danuta a male or female name?
- Danuta is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Danuta mean?
- Recorded meaning: Danuta har föreslagits vara en polsk bildning till Bogdana (’Guds gåva’).
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Danuta” — the 38th most common given name in Poland. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.