Dua
#1,060 for girls in 2025, 231 births
- Peak · girls
- 2025 · 231 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,485since 1993
Dua over time
Rank among girls' names. Dua has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,060 | 231 |
| 2024 | #1,334 | 171 |
| 2023 | #1,377 | 163 |
| 2022 | #1,612 | 131 |
| 2021 | #1,955 | 100 |
| 2020 | #2,005 | 93 |
| 2019 | #2,451 | 72 |
| 2018 | #2,457 | 72 |
| 2017 | #3,769 | 40 |
| 2016 | #3,707 | 41 |
| 2015 | #4,295 | 33 |
| 2014 | #4,003 | 37 |
| 2013 | #4,076 | 36 |
| 2012 | #4,486 | 32 |
| 2011 | #6,148 | 21 |
| 2010 | #5,247 | 26 |
| 2009 | #5,891 | 23 |
| 2008 | #8,109 | 15 |
| 2007 | #7,092 | 18 |
| 2006 | #7,142 | 17 |
| 2005 | #6,245 | 19 |
| 2004 | #9,264 | 11 |
| 2003 | #5,419 | 22 |
| 2002 | #7,444 | 14 |
| 2001 | #6,619 | 16 |
| 2000 | #9,874 | 9 |
| 1999 | #12,688 | 6 |
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| 1996 | #8,812 | 9 |
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| 1993 | #10,588 | 7 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Dua! It came in at #10,588, and was given to 7 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1994–1995, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Dua is popular in 2024
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New York#450 · 1 in 2,016
- Connecticut#473 · 1 in 1,896
- Virginia#548 · 1 in 2,432
- New Jersey#797 · 1 in 4,031
- Massachusetts#867 · 1 in 4,830
Best ever in a state: #322 in Connecticut, 2025.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New York | #450 | 39 | 1 in 2,016 |
| Connecticut | #473 | 6 | 1 in 1,896 |
| Virginia | #548 | 14 | 1 in 2,432 |
| New Jersey | #797 | 9 | 1 in 4,031 |
| Massachusetts | #867 | 5 | 1 in 4,830 |
| Michigan | #868 | 8 | 1 in 4,469 |
| Illinois | #876 | 10 | 1 in 4,494 |
| Washington | #1,081 | 5 | 1 in 5,816 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,234 | 6 | 1 in 7,722 |
| Texas | #1,425 | 17 | 1 in 9,610 |
| California | #1,471 | 16 | 1 in 10,354 |
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See more about Dua
- 274 spots since 2024 (#1,334 → #1,060)
- 945 spots since 2020 (#2,005 → #1,060)
- 3,235 spots since 2015 (#4,295 → #1,060)
- Debuted 1993
- Peaked 2025 at #1,060 (231 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 6,958 girls born in 2025 were named Dua (0.01%)
- 59.9% of all girls named Dua (889) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 22 | #8,812 (1996) | #10,696 |
| 2000s | 164 | #5,419 (2003) | #7,310 |
| 2010s | 410 | #2,451 (2019) | #4,064 |
| 2020s | 889 | #1,060 (2025) | #1,557 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Dua in 2024
Top girls' names in 2024
More about 2024
girls
1,620,190 girls got a published name in 2024; 1 in 9,475 of them was named Dua, which outranked 92.5% of the 17,726 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,331Dalila172
- #1,331Ellery172
- #1,331Prisha172
- #1,334Dua171
- #1,334Addyson171
- #1,334Arwen171
- #1,334Britney171
- #1,341Amarah170
- #1,341Asiya170
- #1,341Carmella170
Tied with 6 names at #1,334; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.