Doha
loc · Arabic · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Doha is a name, most frequently recorded in Qatar. It appears chiefly in Arabic and Hindi, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: city. Qatar.
- QAQatar1 in 23◐
- EGEgypt1 in 24K
- ILIsrael1 in 61K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈1.8K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 109 ●
- 1 in 42K ◐
across 6 countries
recorded for this name
21K records
Official registry-verified
Spain
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled דוחה in IL Israel, LY Libya.
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●
city. Qatar
Sources 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| QA Qatar | 61,626 | 846 rec. | — | — | Doha | 23 |
| EG Egypt | 1,234 | 3.5K rec. | — | listed | Doha | 79 |
| ES Spain | 1,185△ | 153 rec. | 1 in 42K | 1.2K | — | 24 |
| IL Israel | 1,070 | 1.5K rec. | — | 14 | דוחה | 10 |
| SD Sudan | 923 | 53 rec. | — | — | Doha | 20 |
| KW Kuwait | 398 | 205 rec. | — | — | Doha | 19 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | 384 | 160 rec. | — | — | Doha | 54 |
| US United States | 327 | 1.4K rec. | 1 in 1M | 327 | Doha | 109 |
| GB United Kingdom | 182 | 178 rec. | — | listed | Doha | 29 |
| SY Syria | 172 | 4.4K rec. | — | — | Doha | 15 |
| SE Sweden | 116△ | 49 rec. | 1 in 88K | 116 | — | 8 |
| NL Netherlands | 115 | 67 rec. | 1 in 150K | 115 | — | 7 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Arabic65K31%
- Hindi3K1%
- English1.1K1%
- Malay2511%
- Urdu1631%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Arabic | 64,928 | 31% |
| Hindi | 3,014 | 1% |
| English | 1,063 | 1% |
| Malay | 251 | 1% |
| Urdu | 163 | 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●
Doha is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Arabic, forenoon
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In Afrikaans, Doha (the capital city of Qatar)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In ivv, two (non-humans)
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Latvian, Kataras galvaspilsēta ("Doha"), osta Persijas līča krastā, 358000 iedzīvotāju (2007. g.)
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 |
|---|---|
| 1994 | 6 |
| 1996 | 5 |
| 1997 | 7 |
| 1998 | 8 |
| 1999 | 6 |
| 2001 | 6 |
| 2003 | 13 |
| 2004 | 7 |
| 2005 | 6 |
| 2006 | 5 |
| 2007 | 6 |
| 2008 | 5 |
| 2009 | 7 |
| 2011 | 5 |
| 2012 | 9 |
| 2014 | 8 |
| 2015 | 8 |
| 2016 | 6 |
| 2018 | 6 |
| 2020 | 6 |
| 2022 | 7 |
| 2024 | 11 |
| 2025 | 6 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 23 years between 1994–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Doha Assyb. 1970EGEgyptian writer and novelist
- Doha Hanyb. 1997EGbadminton player
- Doha Moustaquimb. 1999MAfilm director
- Doha El Madanib. 2005MAMoroccan footballer (born 2005)
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 45 sources across 28 countries.
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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 · 149 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Doha?
- We estimate roughly 1.8 thousand people bear Doha (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.
- In which country does Doha have the most bearers?
- Doha is most frequently recorded in Qatar, where it is most often spelled doha.
- What does the name Doha mean?
- Recorded meaning: city. Qatar
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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, “Doha”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.