Duni

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Din in IN India, US United States, MY Malaysia and 12 more, Tin in VN Vietnam, ID Indonesia, Tun in MM Myanmar (Burma) and ตน์ in TH Thailand.

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●

Languages●

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◐

Duni is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• a separate given name5.5K records spelled Duni2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, United States

  Also written Dunī

• English given name1.5K records spelled Duni3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, India, Nigeria, Malaysia

  Also written Dünï

• Arabic given name100 records spelled Duni4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India

  Also written Dùnì, Düñî, Dūnī

44 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●

Duni 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 Serbo-Croatian, second-person singular imperative of dunuti

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Swahili, inferior, mediocre, worthless

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In gmw-pro, sound, noise

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In dag, knee (sometimes one hears ‘dim’.)

  as a word·Dagbani Dictionary CD

• In dag, to pass water, to urinate

  as a word·Dagbani Dictionary CD

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●

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 89 years between 1901–2017. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Duni ChandraINIndian linguist, scholar of the Punjabi language

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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 196 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Duni?

We estimate roughly 355 thousand people bear Duni (counting its spellings and scripts) across 16 countries in our records.

In which country does Duni have the most bearers?

Duni is most frequently recorded in Myanmar (Burma), where it is most often spelled tun.

How common is Duni compared with other names?

In Myanmar (Burma), Duni is the 6th most common given name of 9,034 given names recorded there.

Is Duni a male or female name?

Duni is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.

What does the name Duni mean?

Recorded meaning: small