Dunia

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●

Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.

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◐

Dunia is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• a separate given name1.4K records spelled Dunia2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, India, United Kingdom, Bolivia

  Also written Dúnia

• Indonesian given name764 records spelled Dunia6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Indonesia, Spain, United States, Malaysia

  Also written Ďuńiá, Ďûniâ, Dūniā, Dŭńîä, Dúnia

42 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●

Dunia 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.

• Universo

  as a name·25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado

• In dag, the world, the universe. (Arabic via Hausa) duniya tobu ‘world war’ KO

  as a word·Dagbani Dictionary CD

• In min, world (human existence)

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

• In nef, beautiful

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

• In Swahili, Earth

  as a word·kaikki.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.

Over time●

EC INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) — 78 years between 1942–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Dunia Schwarzmannb. 1869DEHolocaust victim
• Dunia Zaldivarb. 1942MXMexican actress
• Dunia Ayasob. 1961ESSpanish screenwriter
• Dúnia Gras Miravetb. 1968ESPeruvian university teacher
• Dunia Elvirb. 1973HNHonduran journalist
• Dunia Montenegrob. 1977BRBrazilian pornographic actress & dancer
• Dunia Bencomob. 1977CUbadminton player
• Dunia Susib. 1987GBEnglish association football player (born 1987)
• Dunia CamachoMXMexican swimmer

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 · 334 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Dunia?

We estimate roughly 9.2 thousand people bear Dunia (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.

In which country does Dunia have the most bearers?

Dunia is most frequently recorded in Honduras, where it is most often spelled dunia.

How common is Dunia compared with other names?

In Honduras, Dunia is the 60th most common given name of 23,431 given names recorded there.

Is Dunia a male or female name?

Dunia 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 Dunia mean?

Recorded meaning: The world.