Doina
given name · Romanian · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Doina is a given name, with more bearers in Moldova than in any other country, where it is the 94th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Romanian and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: From doină (“folk song”). Cognate with Latvian and Lithuanian Daina.
- MDMoldova1 in 422◐
- RORomania1 in 7.3K
- ITItaly1 in 30K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈9.9K ●
- Sources
- 132 ●
- 1 in 422 ◐
across 10 countries
9.3K records
Official registry-verified
Moldova
Meaning & origin●
From doină (“folk song”). Cognate with Latvian and Lithuanian Daina.
Sources 2
- Wiktionary
- Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc
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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MD Moldova | #94 | 7,964△ | 361 rec. | 1 in 422 | 8K | Doina | 38 |
| RO Romania | #236 | 4,290 | 2.6K rec. | — | — | Doina | 79 |
| IT Italy | — | 1,703 | 2K rec. | — | 1 | Doina | 47 |
| ES Spain | — | 907 | 796 rec. | 1 in 55K | 934 | Doina | 51 |
| US United States | — | 677 | 2.4K rec. | 1 in 491K | 677 | Doina | 132 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 317 | 245 rec. | — | — | Doina | 41 |
| CA Canada | — | 192 | 181 rec. | — | — | Doina | 36 |
| PL Poland | — | 182 | — | 1 in 210K | 182 | — | — |
| EG Egypt | — | 166 | 50 rec. | — | — | Doina | 11 |
| RU Russia | — | 143 | 145 rec. | — | — | Doina | 14 |
| TR Türkiye | — | 115 | 133 rec. | — | — | Doina | 9 |
| SE Sweden | — | 102△ | 20 rec. | 1 in 100K | 102 | — | 11 |
Roughly 8K people in Moldova bear this name (about 1 in 422). 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●
- Romanian17K48%
- English4.5K13%
- Spanish4.3K12%
- French2.3K6%
- German1.1K3%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Romanian | 17,053 | 48% |
| English | 4,536 | 13% |
| Spanish | 4,350 | 12% |
| French | 2,272 | 6% |
| German | 1,102 | 3% |
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●
Doina 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.
In English, A kind of Romanian folk song, often of lament, which has also been adopted into klezmer (Ashkenazi Jewish) music.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Moldāvu, rumāņu tautas dziesmu žanrs; šī žanra dziesma
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 |
|---|---|
| 1999 | 40 |
| 2000 | 41 |
| 2001 | 41 |
| 2002 | 40 |
| 2003 | 43 |
| 2004 | 45 |
| 2005 | 47 |
| 2006 | 48 |
| 2007 | 54 |
| 2008 | 58 |
| 2009 | 60 |
| 2010 | 61 |
| 2011 | 59 |
| 2012 | 59 |
| 2013 | 59 |
| 2014 | 61 |
| 2015 | 64 |
| 2016 | 66 |
| 2017 | 68 |
| 2018 | 70 |
| 2019 | 71 |
| 2020 | 72 |
SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 22 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Doina Corneab. 1929RORomanian academic and activist (1929–2018)
- Doina Rotarub. 1951RORomanian composer
- Doina Melinteb. 1956ROathletics competitor
- Doina Ruștib. 1957RORomanian writer
- Michèle Laroqueb. 1960FRnot in their usual nameFrench actress
- Doina Șnep-Bălanb. 1963RORomanian rower
- Doina Robub. 1967RORomanian rower
- Doina Ignatb. 1968RORomanian rower
- Doina Spîrcub. 1970RORomanian rower
- Doina Ciobanub. 1994MDMoldovan model
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 33 sources across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MD Moldova | e-services.md — living population register | — | 8K | #123 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 934 | #1,470 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 907 | #3,049 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 677 | #16,550 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 182 | #1,084 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 182 | #1,084 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 144 | #6,060 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 102 | #8,430 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 72 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 71 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 70 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 68 | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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 · 81 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Doina?
- We estimate roughly 9.9 thousand people bear Doina (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
- In which country does Doina have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 8.0 thousand people bear Doina in Moldova, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled doina.
- Where is Doina most common?
- Doina is densest in Moldova, where the national register counts about 1 in 422 people carrying it.
- How common is Doina compared with other names?
- In Moldova, Doina is the 94th most common given name of 2,579 given names recorded there.
- Is Doina a male or female name?
- Doina 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 Doina mean?
- Recorded meaning: From doină (“folk song”). Cognate with Latvian and Lithuanian Daina.
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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, “Doina” — the 94th most common given name in Moldova. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.