Donder
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Donder is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country. In English, recorded as Alternative form of daunder (“stroll”).
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 24K(inferred from the name graph)
- BEBelgium≈1 in 20K
- GHGhana≈1 in 175K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 69 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 20K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,400 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Belgium, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Dönder in TR Türkiye, CY Cyprus.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
thunder (sound produced by a thunderstorm)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
How Donder is read(measured from records)
Donder is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English29%
Alternative form of daunder (“stroll”).
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Dutch20%
thunder (sound produced by a thunderstorm)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- French19%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Donder in French.
- German15%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Donder in German.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Donder counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Donder 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 Afrikaans, to plummet, tumble
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Breton, profondeur
as a wordDeshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
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(measured from records)
Attested in 5 sources across 2 countries.
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Donder come from?
- thunder (sound produced by a thunderstorm) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What does the name Donder mean?
- In English, Alternative form of daunder (“stroll”).
- What are other forms of the name Donder?
- In the etymology graph, Donner is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Donder have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.4 thousand people named Donder in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dönder.
- How common is the name Donder?
- In Poland, the national register counted 200 people named Donder in 2026, about 1 in 191 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Donder?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/donderThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), and bulk access is licensed separately.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Donder”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.