Duaa
Feminine · “supplication”
Du'a is the Arabic word for personal prayer — not the five daily prayers, but the private asking that anyone may do in any words.
How old is the name Duaa?
Duaa first appears in US birth records in 1982 — 43 years ago. The typical Duaa alive today was born around 2011, making them about 14 years old. About 700 people named Duaa are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Duaa most popular?
Duaa peaked in 2025, reaching #4546 nationally. Today it ranks #4546, exactly where it peaked. See the whole 2025 chart.
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Where it comes from
From du'a to Duaa
The story of Duaa
Islamic practice distinguishes sharply between salah, the prescribed prayer with fixed times, words and postures, and du'a, which has no form at all — it can be made in any language, at any time, about anything, and it is described as the essence of worship. Books of collected du'as exist, but the point is that a person's own words are sufficient. The name is used across the Muslim world.
Meaning
supplication, calling upon
From an Arabic root meaning to call or summon; du'a is the informal prayer of request, distinct from salah, the fixed ritual prayer. The doubled a in this spelling renders the long vowel and the glottal stop.
How the name formed
- du'a
- Duaa
Related forms: Du'a · Dua · Dua
Pronouncing Duaa
doo-AH
Two syllables with the stress on the second; Arabic has a glottal stop between them.
Nicknames for Duaa
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1982
- Most girls named
- 202530 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #4546reached in 2025
- Change vs 2024
- +42.9%30 in 2025, from 21
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Duaa in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Du'a in Arabic — same name
- Dua in Turkish — same name
- Dua in Urdu — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: New York, California, Michigan.
Duaas among us
people named Duaa are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 53,576 born in 2025 was named Duaa
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Duaa
- #4546
- Duaa on the 2025 chart
- #704
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Duaa went to 30 girls in 2025, but Dua is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 261, which makes it the 704th most-given girls’ name of the year — 3,842 places above the chart.
- Dua231
- Duaa30
About 1 girl in 6,158 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 53,576 for Duaa itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Marsia test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Duaa's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Marsia climbed just as high around 1961, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Marsia's path sketches the road Duaa is walking now.
Duaa sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Duaa is headed
Duaa should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Duaa beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Duaa in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A settled meaning naming a genuinely central and unusually free practice.
- Four or five letters and two syllables, quick to write.
- Recognized without explanation across the whole Muslim world.
- Duaa, Dua and Du'a are all in use and none is dominant in English.
- English readers will run the two vowels together into one syllable.
- Dua Lipa is a very strong single association for the sound.
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Frequently asked
- How many Duaas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 700 people named Duaa are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Duaa?
- Duaa is one of 2 recorded spellings. Dua is the more common one — 231 births in 2025 against 30 for Duaa.
- How popular is the name Duaa in 2025?
- Duaa ranks #4546 among US girl names in 2025, with 30 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Duaa?
- About 1 in every 53,576 US girls born in 2025 was named Duaa — 30 in all.
- Will my child share the name Duaa with classmates?
- Duaa will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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