girls:
28 births since 1986
#5688 (0th percentile)
boys:
39 births since 1980
#4547 (1st percentile)
overall:
67 births since 1980
#7672 (1st percentile)
The name Doua is the #7,672 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 67 recorded births since 1980. This represents the 0.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 0.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,547 (0.8% percentile) for all time with 39 births since 1980. For girls, it ranks #5,688 (0.5% percentile) for all time with 28 births since 1986.
Doua first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1980 (1980 for boys and 1986 for girls). Birth data for Doua is available in 11 out of the 21 years between 1980 and 2000 (7 years for boys and 5 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Doua has been given to both genders, with a slight preference for boys (58.2% of all recorded births). In 2000, 0.0% of babies named Doua were boys.
For boys, Doua reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 0.7% percentile (ranked #752) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1994, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1994.
For girls, Doua reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #821) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1991, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2000.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Doua".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Doua. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Doua is pronounced as DUE-uh, which has 2 syllables.
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