Donga

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Donga is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • INIndia1 in 111Kas Dangi(measured from records)
  • ZASouth Africa≈1 in 66K
  • NLNetherlands1 in 86K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Donga itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

12,466 named Dong, 2010

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
78 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 66K (inferred from the name graph)

South Africa, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

DongaLatin(measured from records)
దొంగTelugu(measured from records)

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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Donga 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.

Where Donga is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States12,466as Dong1 in 27K19KDonga63
IN India11,977as Dangi1 in 111K12KDonga78
ES Spain1,651as Dong1 in 30K1.7KDonga1
ZA South Africa≈860 est.≈1 in 66K—Donga4
FI Finland261as Dong1 in 21K261——
NO Norway210as Deng1 in 26K210——
NL Netherlands2001 in 86K200Donga3
DK Denmark195as Dong1 in 30K195——

12,466 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling dong. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Donga is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, Philippines, South Africa

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Dónga, Dôngâ

  • French surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Congo - Kinshasa, Netherlands, India

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Dôngâ, Dõñgã, Döñgá, Dôngā, Dôngà

  • Swahili surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria

    Also written Dong'A

  • Spanish surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, South Africa, India, United States

    Also written Dónga

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(measured from records)

Donga is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Hungarian, stave (a slightly bent wooden board that forms the sides and bottom of a larger wooden vessel (e.g. barrel, tub, vat))

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In English, A usually dry, eroded watercourse running only in times of heavy rain.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In grt, there is, there are

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In lch, river

    as a wordBantu Lexical Reconstructions 3 (BLR3), Tervuren 2002/2003

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 15 sources across 10 countries.

Official registers attesting Donga
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—8.1K#269
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—2.6K#2,589
NL NetherlandsCBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007)2007200#10,416

Reference works 2

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

In which country does Donga have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 12 thousand people named Dong, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Donga?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted 200 people named Donga in 2007, about 1 in 86 thousand residents.

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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, “Donga”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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