Dua

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Dua: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Dua: Recorded since 1999, its highest recorded position is #151, and it stood at #483 in 2025.

3registrars recorded it
31times a registrar ranked it
27years from first to last
#151highest recorded position
8groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1999–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1999	#3900
2001	#3998
2002	#2868
2003	#2436
2004	#3197
2005	#1690
2006	#1660
2007	#2085
2008	#1516
2009	#1055
2010	#1180
2011	#973
2012	#934
2013	#854
2014	#715
2015	#649
2016	#537
2017	#661
2018	#387
2019	#349
2020	#227
2021	#222
2022	#152
2023	#182
2024	#151

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in 25 of the 26 years from 1999 to 2024.

In 2024: #151 among girls in England and Wales, #207 among girls in Scotland, #736 among girls in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1999–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1999
First recorded at #3900 among girls in England and Wales in 1999 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded1999–2024
Highest recorded position: #151 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024 (recorded 1999–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #483 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Girls

Dua appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 25 years beginning in 1999, and has registered 2,124 births with the name.

Dua across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Dua's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#3900 (1999)	#151 (2024)	#151 (2024)	25 of 26	2,124 (1999–2024)	337 (2024)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#834 (2020)	#483 (2025)	#483 (2025)	5 of 6	23 (2020–2025)	7 (2025)

Dua by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Dua in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	3	1 of 10	3
2000s	106	9 of 10	12
2010s	647	10 of 10	65
2020sbusiest	1,368	5 of 10	274

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 274 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2021 and 2022, when recorded births rose by 97, from 225 to 322.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Dua appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1999 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #151 in England and Wales in 2024.

Dua's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#151	337	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#182	280	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#152	322	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#222	225	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#227	204	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#349	126	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#387	115	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#661	63	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#537	79	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#649	63	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#715	55	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#854	44	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#934	39	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#973	36	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1180	27	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1055	30	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1516	18	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#2085	11	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1660	14	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#1690	13	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#3197	5	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#2436	7	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#2868	5	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#3998	3	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#3900	3	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#483	7	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#736	4	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#727	4	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#634	5	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	female	#834	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#207	18	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1999 and 2025, ranked in 26 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #151, first reached in 2024.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 337 births, registered in England and Wales in 2024.

Its record falls into 2 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 1 year.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2020, and 25 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Duaa · #400, 26y
Duane · #268, 30y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Preston · #149, 30y
Lochlainn · #154, 25y
Lyle · #148, 29y
Macey · #148, 29y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Priya · #151, 30y
Sadbh · #151, 32y
Shelby · #151, 31y
Beatrix · #152, 30y

Dua was ranked #151 in England and Wales · Girls in 2024. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Dua and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Dua without appearing here.

Dua moved ahead of

George Compare
In 2007 they stood at #3197 and #2802 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2008 that had become #1516 and #5545.
Tove Compare
In 2007 they stood at #3998 and #3998 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2008 that had become #1516 and #5545.
Finley Compare
In 2007 they stood at #2085 and #1965 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2008 that had become #1516 and #3860.
Ollie Compare
In 2004 they stood at #3197 and #2802 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2005 that had become #1690 and #3970.

Moved the opposite way to Dua

Abigail Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Dua went from #3900 to #151 while Abigail went from #20 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Dua went from #3900 to #151 while Aimee went from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Dua went from #3900 to #151 while Aisling went from #410 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Dua went from #3900 to #151 while Alex went from #204 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Dua

Ada Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Dua went from #3900 to #151 and Ada from #2189 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Dua went from #3900 to #151 and Alma from #3225 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Dua went from #3900 to #151 and Alyssa from #483 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Dua went from #3900 to #151 and Amalie from #2770 to #1128.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1999 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #151 in England and Wales in 2024. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Dua

Dua at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Dua across 2 official records

Dua by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Dua appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

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Dua and the names beside it

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Dua at a glance

Dua across 2 official records

Dua by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Dua appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Dua

Dua and the names beside it

Dua moved ahead of

Moved the opposite way to Dua

Moved the same way as Dua