Douane
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in French: customs (an authority responsible for controlling the flow of goods to and from a country)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/dwan/(recorded in a dictionary) French · from Wiktionary
Douane is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Morocco than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 380Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 2.8M
- ESSpain1 in 7.1M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Morocco (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 99 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 107K (inferred from the name graph)
≈360 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Morocco, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)customs (an authority responsible for controlling the flow of goods to and from a country)
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
How Douane is read
(measured from records)Douane is one spelling over 3 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.
- French82%
customs (an authority responsible for controlling the flow of goods to and from a country)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Arabic6.9%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Douane in Arabic.
- English5.5%
A custom house.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)Douane 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MA Morocco | ≈360 est. | ≈1 in 107K | — | Douane | 8 |
| DZ Algeria | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 162K | — | Douane | 4 |
| FR France | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 375K | 25 | Douane | 99 |
| CM Cameroon | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 261K | — | Douane | 2 |
| US United States | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 32M | — | Douane | 10 |
| ES Spain | 7 | 1 in 7.1M | 7 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 3 | 1 in 2.8M | 3 | — | — |
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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (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)Douane is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Dutch, customs (service/authorities/administration)
as a wordkaikki.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.
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)5 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 28 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 25 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 17 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 16 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 13 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 12 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 12 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 7 | #143,513 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 7 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 7 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 6 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 5 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Douane mean, and where does it come from?
- customs (an authority responsible for controlling the flow of goods to and from a country) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Douane?
- In French /dwan/ (Wiktionary).
- In which country does Douane have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 357 people named Douane in Morocco, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled douane.
- How common is the name Douane?
- In Spain, the national register counted 7 people named Douane, about 1 in 7.1 million residents.
What do you want to know about Douane?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/douaneThe 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), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Douane”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.