Digna

given name · Spanish · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Digna is a given name, most frequently recorded in Venezuela. In Honduras it is the 64th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Spanish and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Latin feminine of dignus 'worthy, deserving'; related to decet 'it is fitting'.

rarermore common
  • ECEcuador1 in 1K◐
  • HNHonduras1 in 1.3K
  • SVEl Salvador1 in 4.1K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈27K ●

across 8 countries

2 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
172 ●

119K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 1.0K ◐

Ecuador

Spellings & scripts●

DignaLatin · Spanish●176K records
ДигнаCyrillic · Russian●26 records

Locally spelled Дигна in RU Russia.

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●

Latin feminine of dignus 'worthy, deserving'; related to decet 'it is fitting'.

Sources 1

  • Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Digna is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
VE Venezuela#68135,44313K rec.—7KDigna32
PE Peru#77532,00227K rec.——Digna35
EC Ecuador#38816,846△225 rec.1 in 1K17KDigna33
HN Honduras#6414,36314K rec.——Digna20
PH Philippines—12,08911K rec.—listedDigna41
CL Chile#57112,053499 rec.—1Digna34
AR Argentina—11,8577.7K rec.—2Digna37
SV El Salvador#3226,5425.9K rec.——Digna14
US United States—6,08812K rec.1 in 55K6.1KDigna172
ES Spain—1,6094K rec.1 in 31K1.7KDigna69
CR Costa Rica—1,0453K rec.1 in 4.9K1K—15
NL Netherlands—634△49 rec.1 in 27K634Digna8

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Spanish176K62%
  • English60K21%
  • Portuguese4.6K2%
  • 2K1%
  • Catalan1.6K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Spanish175,59762%
English60,28321%
Portuguese4,5702%
2,0111%
Catalan1,6091%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Digna is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate given name2.1K records spelled Digna2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Netherlands, India

    Also written Digná

  • Croatian given name99 records spelled Digna7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Spain, Russia, Philippines

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Macedonian

    Also written Дигна, Dïgńä

43 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Digna is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Spanish, feminine singular of digno

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In English, Latin, 'worthy'

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  • Spanish: from the Late Latin name Digna ‘worthy’, which was borne by a martyr beheaded in Spain during the 9th century.

    as a word

  • In io, worthy; meriting, deserving; having merit, worth, virtue

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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●

0200400600190019502000523 · 1985

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Digna in INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024), Ecuador, 1900–2024
Yearrecords
19002
19033
19041
19054
19067
19075
19086
19096
191011
191112
19129
191316
191414
191519
191619
191723
191820
191913
192031
192132
192233
192331
192439
192534
192643
192731
192842
192961
193045
193161
193272
193357
193468
193583
193694
193785
193892
193991
1940108
1941105
1942101
1943120
1944142
1945120
1946124
1947138
1948161
1949183
1950158
1951161
1952174
1953181
1954183
1955184
1956195
1957183
1958217
1959182
1960229
1961212
1962248
1963238
1964244
1965257
1966331
1967244
1968235
1969214
1970234
1971224
1972196
1973212
1974217
1975212
1976215
1977260
1978220
1979245
1980229
1981269
1982234
1983225
1984363
1985523
1986490
1987413
1988352
1989377
1990362
1991294
1992278
1993250
1994322
1995442
1996215
1997169
1998238
1999200
2000152
2001142
2002107
2003128
200499
2005103
200692
200791
200891
200973
201063
201155
201247
201334
201439
201531
201627
201718
201818
201914
202015
202115
202214
20238
20247

EC INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) — 123 years between 1900–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

190019502000Digna Canneman, b. 1912Digna Laclé-Herrera, b. 1925Digna Palou Cruz, b. 1927Digna Sinke, b. 1949Digna Ochoa, b. 1964Digna Ketelaar, b. 1967Digna Calle, b. 1976Digna Luz Murillo, b. 1981Digna Strautmane, b. 1998

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 49 sources across 30 countries.

Official registers attesting Digna
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)—17K—
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names202417K#126
VE Venezuelaasosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996)—7K#286
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20206.1K#3,419
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—1.7K#969
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—1.6K#2,054
CR Costa RicaTSE — electoral roll (padrón) names—1K#545
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—634#1,749
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)1985523—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)1986490—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)1995442—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)1987413—

Reference works 3

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • 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 · 503 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Digna?
We estimate roughly 27 thousand people bear Digna (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
In which country does Digna have the most bearers?
Digna is most frequently recorded in Venezuela, where it is most often spelled digna.
Where is Digna most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Digna is densest in Ecuador — about 1 in 1.0 thousand people — even though Venezuela holds more of our records for it.
How common is Digna compared with other names?
In Venezuela, Digna is the 681st most common given name of 213,120 given names recorded there.
Is Digna a male or female name?
Digna 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 Digna mean?
Recorded meaning: Latin feminine of dignus 'worthy, deserving'; related to decet 'it is fitting'.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

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, “Digna” — the 681st most common given name in Venezuela. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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