Donika
given name · Albanian · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Donika is a given name, with more bearers in Albania than in any other country, where it is the 37th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Albanian and English, written in the Latin script.
- ALAlbania1 in 763◐
- XKKosovo1 in 9.8K
- SESweden1 in 70K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈5.0K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 37 ●
- 1 in 763 ◐
across 14 countries
recorded for this name
9.5K records
Official registry-verified
Albania
Spellings & scripts●
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AL Albania | #37 | 4,028 | 8.6K rec. | 1 in 763 | 4K | Donika | 37 |
| US United States | — | 634△ | 283 rec. | 1 in 525K | 634 | Donika | 35 |
| SE Sweden | — | 145△ | 17 rec. | 1 in 70K | 145 | Donika | 8 |
| IT Italy | — | 121 | 120 rec. | — | — | Donika | 6 |
| GR Greece | — | 101 | 74 rec. | — | — | Donika | 16 |
| IN India | — | 95 | 63 rec. | — | listed | Donika | 15 |
| XK Kosovo | — | 48 | 80 rec. | — | 2.4K | Donika | 6 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 32 | — | 1 in 334K | 32 | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 29 | 16 rec. | — | listed | Donika | 8 |
| HR Croatia | — | 28 | — | 1 in 151K | 28 | — | — |
| ES Spain | — | 27△ | 2 rec. | 1 in 1.9M | 27 | — | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 27 | 22 rec. | — | — | Donika | 5 |
Roughly 4K people in Albania bear this name (about 1 in 763). 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●
- Albanian18K67%
- English3.1K12%
- Bulgarian9514%
- Croatian8423%
- German8373%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Albanian | 17,842 | 67% |
| English | 3,081 | 12% |
| Bulgarian | 951 | 4% |
| Croatian | 842 | 3% |
| German | 837 | 3% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1950 | 2 |
| 1955 | 1 |
| 1958 | 1 |
| 1960 | 1 |
| 1966 | 1 |
| 1967 | 1 |
| 1968 | 6 |
| 1969 | 6 |
| 1970 | 6 |
| 1971 | 7 |
| 1972 | 9 |
| 1973 | 8 |
| 1974 | 16 |
| 1975 | 12 |
| 1976 | 12 |
| 1977 | 11 |
| 1978 | 17 |
| 1979 | 20 |
| 1980 | 20 |
| 1981 | 18 |
| 1982 | 21 |
| 1983 | 25 |
| 1984 | 20 |
| 1985 | 33 |
| 1986 | 49 |
| 1987 | 37 |
| 1988 | 46 |
| 1989 | 45 |
| 1990 | 57 |
| 1991 | 114 |
| 1992 | 91 |
| 1993 | 122 |
| 1994 | 117 |
| 1995 | 127 |
| 1996 | 133 |
| 1997 | 127 |
| 1998 | 126 |
| 1999 | 133 |
| 2000 | 151 |
| 2001 | 135 |
| 2002 | 85 |
| 2003 | 65 |
| 2004 | 45 |
| 2005 | 42 |
| 2006 | 36 |
| 2007 | 27 |
| 2008 | 37 |
| 2009 | 29 |
| 2010 | 28 |
| 2011 | 28 |
| 2012 | 16 |
| 2013 | 20 |
| 2014 | 14 |
| 2015 | 9 |
| 2016 | 14 |
| 2017 | 16 |
| 2018 | 2 |
| 2019 | 3 |
| 2020 | 6 |
| 2021 | 4 |
| 2022 | 5 |
| 2023 | 5 |
| 2024 | 3 |
| 2025 | 1 |
XK ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) — 64 years between 1950–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Donika Kastriotib. 1428ALAlbanian noble
- Donika Gërvalla-Schwarzb. 1971XKKosovan politician
- Donika Gashib. 1974XKKosovar singer
- Donika Rudib. 1982Kosovar composer
- Donika Kellyb. 1983USAmerican poet
- Donika Dzeladinib. 1991CHSwiss association football player
- Donika Nuhiub. 1999ALAlbanian singer
- Donika Grajqevcib. 2001DEKosovan footballer
- Donika EminiXKKosovar beauty queen
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 38 sources across 24 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AL Albania | INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts) | — | 4K | #48 |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | — | 2.4K | #299 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 634 | #17,337 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 176 | #5,278 |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 2000 | 151 | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 145 | #6,623 |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 2001 | 135 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1999 | 133 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1996 | 133 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 129 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1997 | 127 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1995 | 127 | — |
Reference works 2
- 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 · 199 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Donika?
- We estimate roughly 5.0 thousand people bear Donika (counting its spellings and scripts) across 14 countries in our records.
- In which country does Donika have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 4.0 thousand people bear Donika in Albania, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled donika.
- Where is Donika most common?
- Donika is densest in Albania, where the national register counts about 1 in 763 people carrying it.
- How common is Donika compared with other names?
- In Albania, Donika is the 37th most common given name of 12,508 given names recorded there.
- Is Donika a male or female name?
- Donika 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.
Query this name via API
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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, “Donika” — the 37th most common given name in Albania. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.