Donus
given name · English · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Donus is a given name, most frequently recorded in Germany. It appears chiefly in English and French, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: pope.
- ATAustria1 in 280K◐
- DEGermany1 in 562K
- NLNetherlands1 in 2.5M
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈7 ●
- Sources
- 34 ●
- 1 in 2.5M ◐
across 1 country
701 records
Official registry-verified
Netherlands
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Dönüş in DE Germany, AT Austria, TR Türkiye and 1 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●
pope
Sources 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | 216 | 242 rec. | — | — | Dönüş | 17 |
| US United States | 120 | 281 rec. | — | — | Donus | 34 |
| AT Austria | 59 | 56 rec. | — | — | Dönüş | 3 |
| TR Türkiye | 31 | 44 rec. | — | — | Dönüş | 8 |
| AU Australia | 16 | 24 rec. | — | — | Dönüş | 5 |
| NL Netherlands | 7 | 7 rec. | 1 in 2.5M | 7 | Donus | 2 |
| GB United Kingdom | 7 | 7 rec. | — | — | Donus | 4 |
| IT Italy | 7 | 7 rec. | — | — | Donus | 2 |
| DZ Algeria | 5 | 5 rec. | — | — | Donus | 1 |
| PL Poland | — | — | — | 4 | — | — |
| VA Vatican City | — | — | — | 1 | — | — |
| EE Estonia | — | — | — | listed | — | — |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English15042%
- French7922%
- Turkish319%
- Indonesian144%
- Dutch144%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 150 | 42% |
| French | 79 | 22% |
| Turkish | 31 | 9% |
| Indonesian | 14 | 4% |
| Dutch | 14 | 4% |
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●
Donus 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 io, conditional of donar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Esperanto, conditional of doni
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.
Evidence●
Attested in 6 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 5 | #42,347 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 4 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 4 | #220,736 |
| VA Vatican City | Holy See — List of Roman Pontiffs (papal regnal + secular names) | — | 1 | #49 |
| EE Estonia | Siseministeerium — population register name list 2023 | 2023 | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (Tom II: C-D)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 5 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Donus?
- We estimate roughly 7 people bear Donus (counting its spellings and scripts) across 1 country in our records.
- In which country does Donus have the most bearers?
- Donus is most frequently recorded in Germany, where it is most often spelled dönüş.
- Is Donus a male or female name?
- Donus 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 Donus mean?
- Recorded meaning: pope
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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, “Donus”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.